jihad - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about Omar Tall, a mid-19th-century Sufi scholar of the Tijjani order, for 10 points each.

[10e] Omar Tall called his conquests to begin the Tukulor Empire one of these “holy wars” to spread Islam.

ANSWER: jihad

[10m] Omar may have been inspired in his jihad by his stays in Sokoto and Futa Jallon, two of the largest jihad states founded by rulers of this ethnicity in the 18th and 19th century.

ANSWER: Fulani [prompt on Hausa–Fulani]

[10h] The Bambara kingdoms conquered by Omar included an empire founded by the Coulibaly Dynasty that is often named for this city on the Niger. Omar made this city his capital after winning an 1861 battle there.

ANSWER: Ségou

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Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%

Data


Michigan C	Ohio State B	10	0	0	10
Pittsburgh	CWRU A	10	10	0	20
James Madison B	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois A	10	0	0	10
Purdue B	Chicago B	10	0	0	10
Chicago D	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10
Chicago E	Indiana C	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame A	Illinois C	10	10	0	20
Indiana B	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern C	Northwestern D	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Chicago C	10	0	0	10
Bowdoin A	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	0	10
Brown	Dartmouth A	10	0	0	10
Dartmouth B	Bowdoin B	10	10	0	20
MIT	Harvard B	10	10	0	20
Yale	Brandeis B	10	0	0	10
Kentucky	Sewanee	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Louisville A	10	0	0	10
Bruin	Mississipi State	10	10	0	20
Tennessee A	Louisville B	10	10	0	20
WashU A	Alabama B	10	0	0	10
WashU B	Tennessee B	0	0	0	0
CWRU B	Michigan State	10	0	0	10
Ohio State C	Michigan A	10	0	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
Liberty B	James Madison A	10	0	0	10
North Carolina C	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
South Carolina B	Wake Forest	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Virginia	William and Mary	10	0	0	10
NC State A	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Edinburgh A	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh B	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
LSE	Southampton A	10	10	0	20
Durham	Montpellier	10	10	0	20
Oxford B	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
Imperial C	Southampton B	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Warwick A	10	0	0	10
NYU C	Catholic	10	0	0	10
John Jay	Vassar	10	0	0	10
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU A	10	0	0	10
Maryland A	NYU B	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	Georgetown	10	10	0	20
UCL	Birmingham	10	0	0	10
Manchester	Bristol	10	0	0	10
Cambridge A	Cambridge B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge C	Cardiff	10	0	0	10
Oxford C	City St. George's	10	0	0	10
Liberty A	VCU	10	0	0	10