He retired to teach and write and handed the empire to his son Muhammed Bello.

Dan Fodio declined much of the pomp of rulership, and while developing contacts with religious reformists and Jihad leaders across Africa, he soon passed actual leadership of the Sokoto state to his son, Muhammed Bello.

His son Muhammed Bello and his brother Abdullahi carried out the jihad and took care of the administration.

After his death in 1817, his son, Muhammed Bello, succeeded his as amir al-mu ’ minin and became the ruler of the Sokoto Caliphate, which was the biggest state south of the Sahara at that time.

* Muhammed Bello ( reigned 1815-1837 ), Sultan of Sokoto

Muhammed Bello, the son of Usman dan Fodio, transformed the semi-permanent camp of Sokoto into a city in 1809, during the Fulani war.

Much of the growth of the Caliphate occurred through the establishment of an extensive system of ribats as part of the consolidation policy of Muhammed Bello, the second Sultan.

In 1815, Usman dan Fodio retired from the administrative business of the Caliphate and divided the area taken over during the Fulani War with his brother Abdullahi dan Fodio ruling in the west with the Gwandu Emirate and his son Muhammed Bello taking over administration of the Sokoto Caliphate.

There was a series of revolutions by Hausa aristocracy in 1816-1817 during the reign of Muhammed Bello, but these were able to be ended by granting those members title to land.

Sultan Usman dan Fodio, Sultan Muhammed Bello, Emir Abdullahi dan Fodio, Sultan Abu Bakr Atiku, and Nana Asma ’ u devoted significant time to chronicling histories, writing poetry, and Islamic studies.

* Muhammed Bello, Sultan of the Fulani Empire, 1814 – 1836

Muhammed Bello () was the second Sultan of Sokoto and reigned from 1815 until 1837 and was an active writer of history, poetry, and Islamic studies.

Usman retired from administration of the state in 1815 and put Muhammed Bello in charge.

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* Muhammed Bello

Undeterred, Clapperton continued his journey alone through Kano to Sokoto, the capital of the Fulani Empire, where by order of Sultan Muhammed Bello he was obliged to stop, though the Niger was only a five day journey to the west.

Settling in Sokoto, he took several wives, one of whom was a daughter of the Fula Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammed Bello.

Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO PC ( November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957 ) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.

As for the foremost one in the matter of Islam and faith, it was Ali ibn Abi Talib '" Other Sunnis and all Shi ' a Muslims maintain that the second person to publicly accept Muhammed as the messenger of God was Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first being Muhammad's wife Khadija.

Rabbani, son of Muhammed Yousuf, was born in the northern province of Badakhshan in 1940.

He felt differently about the Muslim leader Muhammed Ali Jinnah, but was aware of his power, stating " If it could be said that any single man held the future of India in the palm of his hand in 1947, that man was Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

According to Muslim tradition, in 620 Muhammed was taken on spiritual journey from Mecca to the " farthest mosque ", whose location is considered to be the Temple Mount, returning the same night.

Muhammed Ali was famous for extremely fast and close slips.

For example, when the house of Ali-Oraid, the grandson of Muhammed was discovered and excavated, King Fahd himself ordered that it be bulldozed in case it should become a pilgrimage site.

Nawaf Muhammed Salim al-Hazmi (, ; also known as Rabia al-Makki ) ( August 9, 1976 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.

The question of Az Zubarah became moot in 1878, however, when Jassim bin Mohammed and his brother Ahmed bin Muhammed destroyed the town as punishment for the piracy of the Naim, a tribe that resided in the north of Qatar but was loyal to the sheikh of Bahrain.

In explaining his refusal to be conscripted to fight the Vietnam War ( 1965 – 75 ), professional boxer Muhammed Ali said, " No Vietcong ever called me nigger "; later, his modified answer was the title No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger ( 1968 ) of a documentary about the front-line lot of the US Army Black soldier in combat in Vietnam.

The Nawab of the Carnatic Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan intervened in support of the British and advanced to retake Madras, but despite vast superiority in numbers his army was easily and bloodily crushed by the French, in the first demonstration of the gap in quality that had opened up between European and Indian armies.

Primarily he represented the Chishti Order of Sufism, having received initiation into the Nizamiyya sub-branch of that order from Shaykh Muhammed Abu Hashim Madani, but was also initiated into the Suhrawardiyya, Qadiriyya and Naqshbandi.

In February 2007, journalists reported that Jamal Jaafar Muhammed, who was elected to the Iraqi parliament in 2005 as part of the SCIRI / Badr faction of the United Iraqi Alliance, was also sentenced to death in Kuwait for planning the al-Dawa bombings of the French and American embassies in that country in 1983.

The weakness of the British military command was exposed when a force was sent from Madras to support Muhammed Ali at Trichinopoly, but its commander, a Swiss mercenary, refused to attack an outpost at Valikondapuram.

Iraq information minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf responded that this was another American " lie ".

In the early years of Islam, Najd was seen as a troubled land of insurgencies because its nomadic tribes were not immediately receptive to Prophet Muhammed ’ s message.

The Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed al-Sahhaf denied that any uprising was taking place in Basra.

Nayak rule ended in 1736 CE and Madurai was repeatedly captured several times by Chanda Sahib ( 1740 – 1754 CE ), Arcot Nawab and Muhammed Yusuf Khan ( 1725 – 1764 CE ) in the middle of 18th century.

Muhammed came here to gain support of the Hawazeen and the Tawfiq but was stoned by the tribes.

Dilip Kumar, ( born 11 December 1922, as Muhammed Yusuf Khan ) is an Indian film actor and a former Member of Parliament.

* Abdul Majid Muhammed ( born 1978 ), Iranian held in Guantanamo

Muhammed al-Idrisi was born in Ceuta then belonging to the Almoravid Empire and died in Sicily.

( born 28 May 1938 ), usually known as Prince Buster, and also having the Muslim name Muhammed Yusef Ali, is a musician from Kingston, Jamaica.

Osama bin Laden was born the only son of Muhammed bin Laden's tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas, who was of Syrian origin, making Osama a member of the Syrian group.

Muhammad Ahmed al-Hamed ( born 1931 ), better known by his nickname Muhammed edh-Dhib (; " Muhammad the Wolf "), was a Bedouin shepherd from the Ta ' amireh clans residing in Bethlehem, who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls in winter 1946 / 47.

Ahmad Baba was born on October 26, 1556 in Araouane to the teacher, Ahmad bin al-Hajj Ahmad bin Umar bin Muhammed Aqit.

* Abdullah Muhammed Abdel Aziz ( born 1967 ), Saudi held in Guantanamo

Muhammed Ahmed Faris (; born 26 May 1951 ) is a Syrian military aviator.

His father, Muhammed Bey Amin Khan, served as governor of Kurdistan before moving the family to Alexandria, Egypt where Amin was born.

Since Saudi Arabia houses the holiest sites in Islam — Mecca ( where the prophet Muhammed was born ) and Medina ( where he is buried ) — many Muslims were upset at the U. S. presence.

Muhammed Suiçmez (, born November 28, 1975 ) is a German-Turkish guitarist and the frontman of the technical death metal band Necrophagist.

Muhammed Suiçmez was born in Karlsruhe to Turkish immigrants.