Back عمر بن سعيد الفوتي Arabic عمر بن سعيد الفوتى ARZ Умар Тал Bulgarian Elhaj Umar Tal BM El Hadj Oumar Tall BR Al-Hadjdj Umar Catalan ʿUmar Tall German El Hadj Umar Tall Spanish Alahajji Umaru Taal FF Umar Tall Finnish
| Oumar Foutiyou Tall | |
|---|---|
| El Hadji, Khalifa, Amir al-Mu'minin | |
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| Reign | 1852–1864 |
| Successor | Ahmadu Tall |
| Born | Oumar Tall c. 1796 Futa Tooro, Senegal |
| Died | 14 February 1864 (aged 67–68) Bandiagara Escarpment |
| Issue | Ahmadu Tall |
| Religion | Tijaniyyah islam |
Hadji Oumarûl Foutiyou Tall (ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd al-Fūtī Ṭaʿl, Arabic: حاج عمر بن سعيد الفوتي طعل, c. 1794 – 1864 CE), born in Futa Tooro, present-day Senegal, was a Senegalese Tijani sufi Toucouleur Islamic scholar and military commander who founded the short-lived Toucouleur Empire, which encompassed much of what is now Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea and Mali.[1]
- ^ Lapidus, Ira M. (2014) A History of Islamic Societies. 3rd ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 472–473.