This paper explores the conflict between Abdullahi dan Fodio and his nephew, Muhammad Bello, over the origin of their ethnic group, the Torobbe-Fulani. Initially open to his uncle’s theories of an Arabocentric migration narrative, Bello went on to change his views abruptly and undermine his uncle’s work. Through sketching the background to the conflict followed by a close reading of the documents themselves–Abdullahi’s īdāʿ al-nusūkh and Bello’s critical commentary to it, the ḥāshiya –I suggest these documents offer different models for political legitimacy. Prefaced by a critical analysis of the use of the Fodiawa’s Arabic writings in Sokoto historiography, I suggest that future approaches must take into account the political nature of these documents, the specific contexts in which they were produced and the personal relationships of their authors.

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Abdullahi dan Fodio 和 Muhammad Bello 关于 Torobbe-Fulani 的辩论：西非阿拉伯语主要来源材料新方法的案例研究

本文探讨了阿卜杜拉希·丹·福迪奥 (Abdullahi dan Fodio) 和他的侄子穆罕默德·贝洛 (Muhammad Bello) 就他们的族群 Torobbe-Fulani 的起源发生的冲突。贝洛最初对他叔叔关于阿拉伯中心主义移民叙事的理论持开放态度，后来突然改变了他的观点并破坏了他叔叔的工作。通过勾勒冲突的背景，然后仔细阅读文件本身——阿卜杜拉希的 īdāʿ al-nusūkh 和贝洛对其的批判性评论，ḥāshiya——我建议这些文件为政治合法性提供了不同的模型。在对索科托历史编纂中 Fodiawa 的阿拉伯著作的使用进行批判性分析的开头，我建议未来的方法必须考虑到这些文件的政治性质，