Muallimawa

Muallimawa (Arabic: مو اليماوا‎)
Nisba	al-muallimi
Location	Nigeria (majority) Northern Nigeria North Africa Morocco
Descended from	Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila and Saude Abdullahi - Aliyu
Religion	Islam

The Muallimawa also known as Abdullahwa or Banu Abdullahi is a noble house and royal family in Kano Emirate, Northern Region of Nigeria that participates in the Islamic leadership of the Emirate, the family descents from the Madinawa, Toronkawa, Jobawa and Hausawa clans, it is a branch of the Aliyawa, the House of Maiduniya and the noble house of Banu Gha, the Muallimawa emerged in the 20th century and are related to the Hausa-Fulani Arabs, the word Muallimawa was derived from the Arabic word Muallim which means teacher, the teaching profession was once practised by the progenitors of the noble family Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila and Saude Abdullahi - Aliyu.

History

The Muallimawa are descendants of the scholarly and Noble Houses of Aliyawa, Maiduniya and Banu Gha of the Madinawa clan (Madanis the people of Medina), descendants of Imam Ghali (Malam Gha), members of the family identify themselves as Arabs, Fulani, Hausa, Hausa-Fulani or Hausa-Fulani Arabs depending on their cultural assimilation, they are called Madinawa Malamai in reference to Medina, the city they claim to originate from, the claim of descent from the Arab tribe is common in scholarly lineages throughout Northern Nigeria and the Sahara.

The Muallimawa have a descent from the royal Jobawa Fulani clan, the clan produces one of the Kingmakers in the Kano Emirate with the title of Makaman Kano, members of the clan also hold titles of District Heads and Village Heads in some Local Governments in Kano State, the clan initially resided at Utai in Wudil Local Government before settling in other places in Kano State. During the reign of Sarkin Kano Aliyu Babba he 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, setting aside the traditional requisite of agnatic descent, resulting in a precedence being established for the descendants of the Jobawa clan with paternal or maternal descent to aspire to be appointed as Makaman Kano.

The members of the Muallimawa Sub-clan also have a descent from the Torankawa clan (Torodbe), the clan that leads the Sokoto Caliphate holding the title of Sultan of Sokoto and Amir al-Mu'minin, of the Fulani Empire (consisting of the Fulbe Jihad States of which Sokoto was the headquarters). The Danfodio family are partly Arabs and partly Fulani as stated by Abdullahi dan Fodio, brother of Usman dan Fodio who claimed that their family are part Fulani, and part Arabs, the family claimed to descent from the Arabs through Uqba ibn Nafi who was an Arab Muslim of the Umayyad branch of the Quraysh, and hence, a member of the family of the Prophet, Uqba ibn Nafi allegedly married a Fulani woman called Bajjumangbu through which the Torodbe family of Usman dan Fodio descended. Caliph Muhammed Bello the son of Usman dan Fodio in his book Infaq al-Mansur claimed descent from Prophet Muhammad through his paternal grandmother's lineage called Hawwa (mother of Usman dan Fodio), Alhaji Muhammadu Junaidu, Wazirin Sokoto, a scholar of Fulani history, restated the claims of Shaykh Abdullahi bin Fodio in respect of the Danfodio family been part Arabs and part Fulani, while Ahmadu Bello in his autobiography written after independence replicated Caliph's Muhammadu Bello claim of descent from the Arabs through Usman Danfodio's mother, taking the historical account the family of Shehu dan Fodio are partly Arabs and partly Fulani who culturally assimilated with the Hausas and can be described as Hausa-Fulani Arabs. Prior to the beginning of the 1804 Jihad the category Fulani was not important for the Torankawa (Torodbe), their literature reveals the ambivalence they had defining Torodbe-Fulani relationships. They adopted the language of the Fulbe and much ethos while maintaining a separate identity. The Toronkawa clan at first recruited members from all levels of Sūdānī society, particularly the poorer people. Toronkawa clerics included people whose origin was Fula, Wolof, Mande, Hausa and Berber. However, they spoke the Fula language, married into Fulbe families, and became the Fulbe scholarly caste.

Notable Muallimawa

• Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila
• Saude Abdullahi - Aliyu

References

This article "Muallimawa" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Muallimawa. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.

📰 Article(s) of the same category(ies)

• Meryem bent Ali
• Ahmed Abdullahi Aliyu Abdurrahim Sumaila
• Abdulbaqi Jari
• House of Maiduniya
• Abdullahi Ahmed Sumaila
• Aliyu-Talle Maiduniya Sumaila
• Muhammed Kadaɗe Suleiman

---