Rabih az-Zubayr

Rabih az- Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah ( other spellings of his name component is Rabeh, Fadlallah ) (* 1842, † April 22, 1900 ) was a warlord and ruler in the area of Lake Chad.

Life

Born about 1842 the son of an Arab family in Halfaya al - Muluk, a suburb of Khartoum, Rabih soldier was wounded in the irregular Egyptian cavalry and the fight against Ethiopia. In the 1860s, he left the army and became an officer in the private army of the Sudanese slave hunter Al- Zubayr Rahma Mansur. This was used in 1872 by Egypt as Pasha Bahr al - Ghazal and conquered in 1874, the Sultanate of Darfur. In 1876 he was jailed but in Cairo. His son Suleiman rebelled against the Khedive in Cairo, but his revolt was crushed in 1879.

Rabih sat down, when the defeat of Suleiman was predictable, with about 800 soldiers and wandered off into the border area of present-day Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, where he controlled a small territory. 1885 invited him to the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad, but wanted to murder him. Rabih learned of it in time and interrupted his trip to Khartoum. 1887 took Rabih raids on Darfur and Wadai. In 1890 he continued his nephew Mohammed al - Senoussi in the northern part of his territory as his representative. 1892/1893 he conquered Bagirmi. In 1893 he conquered Bornu and devastated its capital Kukawa.

Rabih reigned henceforth as the Sheikh of Bornu in Dikwa over the countries surrounding Lake Chad. He sat Sudanese officers as his highest officials a further chased slaves exported from these approximately 2000 per year and led a law based on Sharia law.

1899 attracted the French from Algeria through the Sahara and West Africa to over Sokoto against Rabih. Amédée -François Lamy, the leader of the troops from Algeria, united both armies. On April 22, 1900, a battle took place at Kousséri. Lamy and Rabih fell, but the French troops won the battle and still founded in 1900 Fort Lamy (now N'Djamena ). By 1902, the kingdom Rabihs under Great Britain, France and Germany was divided.