Tippu Tip, 1837-1905

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Name (Latin)
Tippu Tip, 1837-1905
Name (Arabic)
تيبو تيب، 1837-1905
Other forms of name
Hamed bin Mohammed, 1837-1905
Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, 1837-1905
Hamid bin Muḥammad bin Jumʻah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Saʻīd al-Murjabi, 1837-1905
Hemed bin Muhammad el Murjebi, 1837-1905
Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad, 1837-1905
Muhammed bin Hamid, 1837-1905
Tippo Tip, 1837-1905
Tippoo Tib, 1837-1905
Tippu Tib, 1837-1905
Tipu Tipu, 1837-1905
Tībū Tīb, 1837-1905
Hamid, Muhammed bin, 1837-1905
Mohammed, Hamed bin, 1837-1905
Muḥammad, Ḥāmid ibn, 1837-1905
Murjabi, Hamid bin Muḥammad bin Jumʻah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Saʻīd, 1837-1905
Murjebi, Hamed bin Muhammed el, 1837-1905
Murjībī, Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad, 1837-1905
Tib, Tippoo, 1837-1905
Tib, Tippu, 1837-1905
Tip, Tippo, 1837-1905
Tip, Tippu, 1837-1905
Tīb, Tībū, 1837-1905
Tippu Tip, -1905
Tippu Tip, d. 1905
nnaa Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad, called Tippoo Tib, d. 1905
Tippoo Tib, d. 1905
Tib, Tippoo, d. 1905
Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, d. 1905
Muḥammad, Ḥāmid ibn, d. 1905
Tip, Tippu, d. 1905
Murjebi, Hamed bin Muhammed el, d. 1905
Tippo Tip, d. 1905
Tip, Tippo, d. 1905
Hamed bin Mohammed, d. 1905
Mohammed, Hamed bin, d. 1905
Date of birth
1837
Date of death
1905-06-14
Associated country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tanzania
Zanzibar
Occupation
Governors
Merchants
Plantation owners
Slave traders
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 50024311
Wikidata: Q458421
Library of congress: n 50018892
OCoLC: oca00054328
Sources of Information
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica (online), July 15, 2016(Tippu Tib, also called Muhammed bin Hamid; b. 1837; d. June 14, 1905 in Zanzibar, now in Tanzania; the most famous late 19th-century Arab trader in central and eastern Africa; active in ivory trade; by the late 1860s he established a loosely organized state in eastern and central Congo River basin; accompanied British explorer Henry Morton Stanley along the Congo River in 1876-77; in 1883 he allied with Sultan Barghash of Zanzibar, in attempt to extend Arab influence in the Congo region against Leopold of Belgium's International Association of the Congo; he remained in the Congo until 1886; in Feb. 1887 he signed an agreement making him governor of the district of the Falls, Congo Free State (now Congo [Kinshasa]); in Apr. 1890 he left the Falls for the last time and returned to Zanzibar)
  • Historia kwa shule za msingi, 1983:title page (Tipu Tipu) preliminary page (Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, Tipu Tipu, as photo portrait caption) page 4 (Tipu Tipu (Hemed bin Muhammad el Murjebi); b. 1830 in Zanzibar)
  • Mughāmir ʻUmānī fī adghāl Ifrīqiyā, 2005:t.p. (Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʻah al-Murjībī, Tībū Tīb) p. 17, etc. (b. 1840?; d. 1905)
  • Wikipedia, July 15, 2016Tippu Tip, or Tippu Tib; 1837-June 14, 1905; real name Hamid bin Muḥammad bin Jumʻah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Saʻīd al-Murjabi, Arabic حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي; Swahili-Zanzibari slave trader; known by people of the African Great Lakes as Tippu Tip after the sounds that his guns made; ivory trader, explorer, plantation owner and governor; he traded in slaves for Zanzibar's clove plantations)
  • His Maisha ya Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, yaani Tippu Tip, kwa maneno yake mwenyewe, 1966:t.p. (Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, Tippu Tip)
  • Renault, F. Tippo Tip, 1987.
  • CSmH files(usage: Hamed bin Mohammed, alias, Tippo Tib)