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This paper focuses on the establishment of the Emirate System of government in Daura. It examines the deteriorating political and socio-economic conditions in Hausaland in general and in the Daura Kingdom in particular before the nineteenth century, which led to the outbreak of the jihad, which, by extension, spread to and affected the Daura Kingdom by the beginning of the nineteenth century. The paper used a corroborative historical research method, drawing on primary and secondary sources to unearth valuable information. It discusses the establishment of the Emirate Government in Daura, which resulted from the jihad. Additionally, the paper assesses the impact of the establishment of the new emirate, which revolutionised almost everything in the society. It concludes by showing how the new emirate government transformed not only society and the economy but also almost all aspects of human life, institutions, and structures, based on the Islamic conceptualisation of justice, compared to the old kingdom, which was secular.

Daura, Emirate System, Jihad, Hausaland, Islam,