Muallimawa
The Muallimawa also known as Abdullahwa or Banu Abdullahi is a noble house and royal family in Kano Emirate, Northern Region of Nigeria that participates in the Islamic leadership of the Emirate, the family descents from the Madinawa, Toronkawa, Jobawa and Hausawa clans, it is a branch of the Aliyawa, the House of Maiduniya and the noble house of Banu Gha, the Muallimawa emerged in the 20th century and are related to the Hausa-Fulani Arabs, the word Muallimawa was derived from the Arabic word Muallim which means teacher, the teaching profession was once practised by the progenitors of  the noble family Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila and Saude Abdullahi - Aliyu. History. The Muallimawa are descendants of the scholarly and Noble Houses of Aliyawa, Maiduniya and Banu Gha of the Madinawa clan (Madanis the people of Medina), descendants of Imam Ghali (Malam Gha), some members of the noble scholarly family claimed descent from the Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh, through Sharif ibn Ali, Hasan ibn Ali, Ali ibn Abi Talib and the Islamic prophet Muhammad, members of the family identify themselves as Arabs, Fulani, Hausa, Hausa-Fulani or Hausa-Fulani Arabs depending on their cultural assimilation, they are called Madinawa  Malamai in reference to Medina, the city they claim to originate from, the claim of descent from the Arab tribe and the prophet is common in scholarly lineages throughout Northern Nigeria and the Sahara. The Muallimawa have a descent from the royal Jobawa Fulani clan, the clan produces one of the Kingmakers in the Kano Emirate with the title of Makaman Kano, members of the clan also hold titles of District Heads and Village Heads in some Local Governments in Kano State, the clan initially resided at Utai in Wudil Local Government before settling in other places in Kano State . During the reign of Sarkin Kano Aliyu Babba he appointed Sarkin Takai Umaru Dan Maisaje as Makaman Kano whose link with the Jobawa is through his father's mother Habiba, the sister of Malam Bakatsine, setting aside the traditional requisite of agnatic descent, resulting in a precedence being established for the descendants of the Jobawa clan with paternal or maternal descent to aspire to be appointed as Makaman Kano. The members of the Muallimawa Sub-clan also have a descent from the Torankawa clan (Torodbe), the clan that leads the Sokoto Caliphate holding the title of Sultan of Sokoto and  Amir al-Mu'minin, of the Fulani Empire (consisting of the Fulbe Jihad States of which Sokoto was the headquarters). The Torankawa clan are partly Arabs and partly Fulani as stated by Abdullahi dan Fodio, brother of Usman dan Fodio who claimed that their clan of Torankawa are part Fulani, and part Arabs, the Torankawa claimed to descent from the Arabs through Uqba ibn Nafi who was an Arab Muslim of the Umayyad branch of the Quraysh, and hence, a member of the family of the Prophet, Uqba ibn Nafi allegedly married a Fulani woman called Bajjumangbu through which the Torodbe  family of Usman dan Fodio descended. Caliph Muhammed Bello the son of Usman dan Fodio in his book Infaq al-Mansur claimed descent from Prophet Muhammad through his paternal grandmother's lineage called Hawwa (mother of Usman dan Fodio), Alhaji Muhammadu Junaidu, Wazirin Sokoto, a scholar of Fulani history, restated the claims of Shaykh Abdullahi bin Fodio in respect of the Danfodio family been part Arabs and part Fulani, while Ahmadu Bello in his autobiography written after independence replicated Caliph's Muhammadu Bello claim of descent from the Arabs through Usman Danfodio's mother, taking the historical account the family  of Shehu dan Fodio are partly Arabs and partly Fulani who culturally assimilated with the Hausas and can be described as Hausa-Fulani Arabs. Prior to the beginning of the 1804 Jihad the category Fulani was not important for the Torankawa (Torodbe), their literature reveals the ambivalence they had defining Torodbe-Fulani relationships. They adopted the language of the Fulbe and much ethos while maintaining a separate identity. The Toronkawa clan at first recruited members from all levels of Sūdānī society, particularly the poorer people. Toronkawa clerics included people whose origin was Fula, Wolof, Mande, Hausa and Berber. However, they  spoke the Fula language, married into Fulbe families, and became the Fulbe scholarly caste.