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According to a dubious legend, this scholar passed the torch that Muhammad Bello used to torch the Gobir capital of Alkalawa. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this scholar and poet who founded the Yan Taru movement, a network of women’s educators who traveled to rural communities to teach Islamic theology, particularly to adherents of the Bori religion.
ANSWER: Nana Asma’u
[10m] Nana Asma’u was the daughter of Usman dan Fodio, the first caliph of this Fulani caliphate that conquered much of Hausaland in Nigeria in the early 19th century.
ANSWER: Sokoto Caliphate
[10e] Usman dan Fodio and Nana Asma’u belonged to the Qadiriyya order of this mystical Islamic tradition.
ANSWER: Sufism
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