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unusual facts about Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr


Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr

He marched to Sbeitla, Tunisia, the capital of self-proclaimed local emperor Gregory the Patrician.


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The ship was then dismantled and hauled by African laborers through the forest to reach navigable portions of the Oubangui, where he founded the French station at Fort-Archambault near one of Sultan Rabih az-Zubayr's major towns, Kouno (now in the Chari-Baguirmi Region of Chad).

Fitna

The Second Fitna (c. 680/683–c. 685/692 CE), the second Islamic "civil war" between the Umayyads and Ibn al-Zubayr

Rabih az-Zubayr

Wanting to modernize his army, Rabih and attempted in 1895 to make an accord with British Royal Niger Company in Yola and Ibi so to obtain gunpowder and ammunition, but without success.

Using the tactics of the Khartumi, he in the 1880s he carved out a kingdom between the basins of the Nile and the Ubangi, in the country of Kreich and Dar Benda, south of Ouaddai, a region he utterly devastated.

All Rabih's territories fell into French hands, except for Borno which went to Britain.

The French forces disposed of 700 men, plus the 600 riflemen and 200 cavalry provided by the allied Baguirmians.

He started confronting the British in 1896 and the following year even started marching on Kano, while his vassal Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi founded a fortified capital, Ndele, between Bahr Aouk and the Ubangi River, which he held until 1911.


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