 The Torodbe may well have already been a distinct group when the Denianke conquered Futa Toro.In the last quarter of the seventeenth century the Mauritanian Zawaya reformer Nasir al-Din launched a jihad to restore purity of religious observance in the Futa Toro.He gained support from the Torodbe clerical clan against the warriors, but by 1677 the movement had been defeated.