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“By the end of the nineteenth century, states established by the Fulbe Muslim scholars had, on an unprecedented scale, promoted Islamic institutions, including Qur’anic and higher Islamic studies schools and Sufi lodges. Just like other groups, some Fulbe clerical families also became assimilated to other ethnic groups. In Senegambia, for example, though some families such as the Tall kept their identity as Fulbe, other Fulani clerical families such as the Sy of Tivawane were assimilated into the Wolof in the twentieth century while they recruited a predominantly Wolof following.”
-Ousmane Oumar Kane, Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
