EntityQ185938· pop 24· linked from 156 articlesʿUmar TalSign in to saveWest African political leader, Islamic scholar, and Toucouleur military commanderConnectionsFulbe peopleEntityEmpire PeulEntityTijaniyyahEntityFuta TooroEntityFrenchEntityMaliCountryArabicEntityMauritaniaCountrySenegalCountryGuineaCountrySierra LeoneCountryDamascusEntityMeccaEntityDakarEntityInternational Standard Book NumberEntitycolonialismEntityNiger RiverEntityHajjEntityTimbuktuEntityanimismEntityCategories1790s births1864 deaths19th-century African businesspeople19th-century imams19th-century monarchs in AfricaAfrican slave tradersForced religious conversionFula peopleGuinean MuslimsIslam in SenegalMaraboutsPeople from the Toucouleur EmpirePeople of French West Africa