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Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah | |
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Ruler of Borno | |
Reign | 1894 – 1900 |
Born | c. 1842 |
Died | April 22, 1900 Dikwa |
Issue | Fadl-Allah |
Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah (Arabic: رابح فضل الله ,رابح الزبير ابن فضل الله; c. 1842 – April 22, 1900), also known as Rabih Fadlallah and usually known as Rabah in French, was a Sudanese warlord and slave trader who established a powerful empire east of Lake Chad, in today's Chad.
Born around 1842 to an Arabic tribe in Halfaya Al-Muluk, a suburb of Khartoum, he first served with the irregular Egyptian cavalry in the Egyptian–Ethiopian War, during which he was wounded. When Rabih briefly left the army in the 1860s, he became the principal lieutenant of the Sudanese slaveholder Sebehr Rahma.