Rabih Bin Fadlallah Al-Sudanes The Commander of the national resistance and the founder of the first Arab state in Chad (1846-1900)

Abstract

Rabah bin Fadlallah was one of the officers of the well-known Sudanese leader Zubair Pasha Rahma Mansour, who managed to establish his own emirate in the Bahr al-Ghazal region and then extended to include Kordofan and Darfur, and due to British incitement accusing him of slave trade, the Egyptian authorities in Khartoum began to harass him, so he left with a huge entourage To Cairo to confirm to Khedive Ismail that he was loyal to Egypt and had no separatist intentions, but he was detained there and prevented from returning, so his son Suleiman took over the administration of the country, but Gordon, the ruler of Sudan, soon plotted against him and accused him of trying to separate himself, and sent him a force led by the Italian officer Jessy, On the advice of his father Al-Zubayr, Suleiman surrendered to Jessi, confirming his good intentions, but the latter soon betrayed him and killed him with a number of his relatives, and Rabih was one of Suleiman's prominent officers who did not secure the side of these foreigners, so he refused to surrender with Suleiman, and headed west with about a thousand fighters of his armed followers. With guns, he took control of multiple regions in the south of the Kingdom of Wadai, and then gradually expanded until he was able to form a vast kingdom in 1892 that included parts of the Kingdom of Dai and all of the kingdoms of Bakarmi and Brno and parts of the kingdom of Sokoto, and He took the city of Dekoua as his capital, and formed a strong army, thus establishing a modern Arab Islamic state in Chad and parts of present-day Cameroon and Niger. On his kingdom in 1900 after France brought in large forces from Algeria and West Africa. His son Fadlallah took command of the Arab resistance there until he was also martyred in 1902.