Zabarma Emirate
Islamic state in modern-day Ghana and Burkina Faso / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Zabarma Emirate was an Islamic state that existed from the 1860s to 1897 in what is today parts of Ghana and Burkina Faso.
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Zabarma Emirate | |
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1860–1897 | |
Religion | Islam |
List of Rulers | |
• 1860 | Babatu |
History | |
• Established | 1860 |
• Disestablished | 1897 |
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The leaders of the Zabarma Emirate, who belonged to the Zarma ethnicity from which the Emirate is named, originated in an area now in the nation of Niger, in an area south-east of Niamey on the east side of the Niger River.
The key moving force behind the state was Babatu who hailed from N'Dounga in Niger, a place that had been Muslim far longer than most of the other areas the Zabarma leadership came from, most of which became Muslim only in the 1850s or so.