Qualla: Hamdullahi https://qualla.com/hamdullahi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Hamdullahi https://qualla.com/hamdullahi Hamdullahi: Introduction https://qualla.com/hamdullahi/ The name itself is a prayer. Hamdullahi - from the Arabic for "Praise to God" - was not a town that grew slowly from a crossroads or a market. It was conceived whole, a planned holy capital laid out on the flat plain east of the Bani River in 1820. For a little over four decades it was the beating heart of one of West Africa's most remarkable states. Then it was destroyed so thoroughly that today its outline survives mainly as faint walls in the dust, visible from space but nearly invisible from the road - the ruins of an empire that praised God and ruled the Inner Niger Delta.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/f/t/1/hamdullahi-wp/eft1-hamdullahi-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hamdullahi: A City Built on Conviction https://qualla.com/hamdullahi/ Hamdullahi was the vision of Seku Amadu, a Fulani Islamic scholar and reformer who set out to build a state governed by faith. Around 1820 he founded his capital here, on a site 21 kilometers southeast of Mopti, hemmed by the Bani River to the west and the Bandiagara plateau to t...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/f/t/1/hamdullahi-wp/eft1-hamdullahi-a-city-built-on-conviction.mp3 0:06 2 full Hamdullahi: The Empire of Scholars https://qualla.com/hamdullahi/ The Massina Empire that Hamdullahi commanded was no mere chiefdom. At the height of its power a standing army of 10,000 men was garrisoned in the city, and Seku Amadu is said to have ordered the construction of six hundred madrasas across his domain to spread Islamic learning. Ye...

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