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 "id": "person/al-hajj-umar-tal",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "al-hajj-umar-tal",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الحاج عمر الفوتي تال",
  "en": "al-Hajj Umar Tal"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بطاقة أولية للحاج عمر بن سعيد الفوتي تال، المجاهد التجانية والعالم التوكولوري الذي أسس دولة في غرب إفريقيا؛ توفي سنة ١٨٦٤م ولم تُراجع ترجمته على الصفحة بعد.",
  "en": "Draft card for al-Hajj Umar ibn Sa'id al-Futi Tal, the Tijani mujahid and Toucouleur scholar who founded a state in West Africa; he died in 1864 and his entry is not yet checked on the page."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/colonial-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1863.999192317433,
  "latest": 1865.001266281959
 },
 "display": {
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1864",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "roles": [
   "sufi master",
   "ruler"
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "died": {
   "edtf": "1864",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/al-aalam"
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q185938"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Wikidata candidate; entry not yet read on the page in a book source",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "model": "SWE-2 High",
   "run": "wikidata-import-wave2"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abadi-bano-begum",
  "person/abai-qunanbaiuly",
  "person/abd-al-aziz-uthmani",
  "person/abd-al-ghaffar-al-akhras",
  "person/abd-al-ghani-al-maydani",
  "person/abd-al-hamid-al-zahrawi",
  "person/abd-al-qadir-al-jazairi",
  "person/abd-al-rahman-al-kawakibi",
  "person/abd-al-razzaq-al-bitar",
  "person/abdullah-al-nadim",
  "person/abdurreshid-ibrahim",
  "person/abdyl-frasheri"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-10-19",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/ahmadu-tall",
   "type": "parent_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Eldest son of al-Hajj Umar Tall, founder of the Toucouleur Empire, whom he succeeded in 1864. The father's museum record exists as person/al-hajj-umar-tal (a Wikidata-import draft skeleton under the name al-Hajj Umar ibn Sa'id al-Futi Tal, Q185938), not under the slug umar-tall the brief expected; the identity is confirmed by the QID and by all three articles.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-ahmadu-tall-en",
    "source/wikipedia-ahmadu-tall-fr"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ba-lobbo",
   "type": "opposed_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "After the fall of Hamdullahi in 1862 Ba Lobbo assembled a force of Fulas and Kountas and drove Umar Tall from Hamdullahi into the cliffs of Dogon country near Bandiagara in 1864, where Umar died; Umar's nephew Tidiani Tall then suppressed Ba Lobbo's resistance.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-ba-lobbo-en"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/alboury-ndaye",
  "person/mamadou-lamine-drame",
  "person/seku-amadu",
  "person/ahmadu-tall",
  "person/ba-lobbo"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}