PHILOSOPHER

Usman dan Fodio

1754 - 1817

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Shehu Usman dan Fodio (Arabic: عثمان بن فودي, romanized: ʿUthmān ibn Fūdī; full name; 15 December 1754 – 20 April 1817). (Uthman ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Saalih ibn Haarun ibn Muhammad Ghurdu ibn Muhammad Jubba ibn Muhammad Sambo ibn Maysiran ibn Ayyub ibn Buba Baba ibn Musa Jokolli ibn Imam Dembube`) was a Fulani scholar, Islamic religious teacher, poet, revolutionary and a philosopher who founded the Sokoto Caliphate and ruled as its first caliph. After the successful revolution, the "Jama'a" gave him the title Amir al-Mu'minin (commander of the faithful). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Usman dan Fodio has received more than 1,132,457 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Usman dan Fodio is the 570th most popular philosopher (down from 544th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Nigeria and the most popular Nigerian Philosopher.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Usman dan Fodio ranks 570 out of 1,267. Before him are Zoilus, Bion of Borysthenes, Alan Watts, Bernardino Telesio, Zaleucus, and Arthur Danto. After him are Gersonides, Zou Yan, Andreas Karlstadt, Peter the Iberian, Charles W. Morris, and Cesare Ripa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Usman dan Fodio ranks 19. Before him are Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Salawat Yulayev, Louis de Bonald, Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, and William Bligh. After him are Jean-Antoine Marbot, Salomon Maimon, Franz Xaver von Zach, Joseph Joubert, Pavel Tsitsianov, and Jurij Vega. Among people deceased in 1817, Usman dan Fodio ranks 18. Before him are Fyodor Ushakov, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Nakşidil Sultan, William Bligh, and Theroigne de Mericourt. After him are Étienne Méhul, Ibrahim Bey, Andrea Appiani, Duke Louis of Württemberg, Giacomo Quarenghi, and Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Usman dan Fodio ranks 8 out of 309. Before him are Wole Soyinka (1934), Dr. Alban (1957), Chinua Achebe (1930), Hugo Weaving (1960), Sade (1959), and Fela Kuti (1938). After him are Jay-Jay Okocha (1973), Bola Tinubu (1952), Olusegun Obasanjo (1937), Hakeem Olajuwon (1963), Olaudah Equiano (1745), and Sani Abacha (1943).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Nigeria

Among philosophers born in Nigeria, Usman dan Fodio ranks 1. After him are Nana Asmaʼu (1793).

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