Madinawa

Madinawa
Location	Nigeria (majority) Northern Nigeria North Africa Morocco Sudan Kano (city)
Descended from	'Alawi dynasty
Branches	House of Maiduniya, Muallimawa, Aliyawa, Banu Gha (House of Malamai, The Madani, Abdullahwa (House of Abdullah)
Religion	Islam

The Madinawa are Islamic Leaders in Kano Emirate. Some members of the Kano local community believed they possessed baraka, or blessing power. In Kano Emirate, they are referred to as Awliya Madinawa Malamai by some people, in reference to the city of Medina where they claimed to have originated from, situated in Western Saudi Arabia. Most of their ancestors were Islamic saints.

History

The Madinawa migrated from the city of Medina and settled at Bakin Ruwa in Kano City, subsequently they were appointed as Islamic religious leaders of the town of Kadawa in Warawa, Kano State by the Kano Emirate Council. On their way to Kano it was reported that they stayed for a while in Majiya, Borno and Sudan.

Pre-colonial period

The Madinawa concentrated in the propagation of Islam in Northern Nigeria and the religious leadership of the community. Imam Ghali Kadawa, one of their tribesmen, was appointed as the spiritual leader and Imam of Kadawa, at Warawa by the Kano Emirate Council.

19th century changes

In the 19th century, a new merchant and bureaucratic class emerged from the Madinawa who exerted influence in Kano State and Nigeria's political landscape. Some of them inter-married with the royal houses of Kano and their descendants became traditional titleholders. They produced numerous imams, Islamic theologians, traditional title holders, bureaucrats and politicians in the Emirate of Kano, members of the dynasty identify themselves as Fulani, Hausa, Hausa-Fulani Arabs or Hausa-Fulani depending on their cultural assimilation, the claim of descent from the Arab tribe is common in scholarly lineages throughout Northern Nigeria and the Sahara.

Members of the dynasty that descended from the Jobawa clan on the maternal side are entitled to be appointed as Makaman Kano, due to the precedent established during the reign of Sarkin Kano Aliyu Babba, who appointed Sarkin Takai Umaru Dan Maisaje as Makaman Kano, whose link with the Jobawa is through his father's mother Habiba, the sister of Malam Bakatsine, the traditional requisite of agnatic descent was not considered in the appointment leading to the establishment of a precedent for the descendants of the Jobawa with paternal or maternal links to aspire to be appointed as Makaman Kano. An Awliya Madinawa Malamai clan member Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila, the progenitor of the Muallimawa dynasty, has a link to the Jobawa through his paternal great-grandmother, the daughter of the Village head of Sumaila, Sarkin Sumaila Dansumaila Akilu, a bajobe and son of Makaman Kano Iliyasu.

Prominent Madinawa

• Sheikh Shi'ithu Ghali
• Sheikh Ibrahim Shi'ithu Ghali
• Waliyi Abdurrahim-Maiduniya
• Aliyu-Talle Maiduniya Sumaila
• Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila

Notable Dynasties

• Aliyawa
• Muallimawa
• Abdullahwa (House of Abdullah)

References

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