![]() This trend of the royal court versus traditional ulama squabble continued in many parts of the Muslim world until the coming of the colonialists. The same could also be said of Sheikh Uthman Dan Fodio and his companions who had the daunting task of facing the royal opposition mounted by the sarkis of their days. Before the advent of colonialism, the norm was usually the royal court posing the biggest threat or a direct challenge to the ulama as in the case of the four Imams of the Sunni schools of thought. Over the centuries, Muslim scholars have had the onerous task of facing challenges of various dimensions from one environment to another and that of course would naturally depend on the enormity of the challenges and the intellectual ability of the scholar involved to mount the required opposition to such challenges. ![]()
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