Sulayman Bal
Shaykh Sulayman Bal (    , ya rasu a shekara ta 1775) shugaba ne na ƙarni na 18 na Afirka, jarumi, kuma malamin addinin Islama, daga yankin Futa Toro wanda a yau  shine yammacin Mali .

A cikin shekarar 1760s da 1770s, Sulayman Bal ya kafa daya daga cikin Jihohin Jihadin Fulani na farko. Jihadin Alfa Ibrahima Nuhu wanda ya jagoranci Imaman Futa Jallon daga 1725, Sulayman Bal ya jagoranci tawaye a masarautar Fulani Denyanke . Da nufin kifar da sarakunan gargajiya, yunkurin ya yi nasara ne bayan mutuwarsa. A wurinsa, a clerical oligarchy tashi da sauri zo a cikin rikici tare da makwabta. An fatattaki Moors na Brakna bayan an dade ana kai farmaki a Futa Toro, sannan aka mamaye jihohin da ba na musulmi ba.

 ne ya gaje Sulayman Bal wanda karfafar da  jihar Futa Toro, ya kinkiro aikin soja aristocracy, kuma ya zama daya daga cikin na farko a cikin jerin mutanen yammacin Afrika shugabannin da su dauki take almami . A cikin 1796, Futa Toro ya kuma sha kaye a lokacin yakin Bounghoy da masarautar Cayor da ba musulmi ba karkashin jagorancin Damel Amary Ngone Ndella Fall, kuma an kashe Abd al-Qādir a 1807, don maye gurbinsa da majalisa mai zaman kanta na shugabannin dangi.

Manazarta 

 Holger Weiss ne adam wata. Ƙoƙarin Ƙoƙarin Kafa Tattalin Arzikin Musulunci: Binciken Zakka a wasu Jihohin Musulmi na Ƙarni na Sha Tara na Bilād as-Sudan  . Takarda da aka gabatar a taron bitar SAL: "Jiha da Rayuwar Yau da kullum a Afirka", Accra, Nuwamba-Disamban shekarar 2000.
 David Robinson. Hakimai da Malamai: Abdul Bokar Kan da Futa Toro, 1853–1891. Clarendon Press. (1975).

Mutuwan 1775
Musulman Mali