Khalid Hanif Yusuf

Khalid Hanif Yusuf, usually known as General Yusuf, was a revolutionary military and political leader in the early 20th century.

Yusuf was born into the Nusafi Republic in the immediate aftermath of the Second Nusafi Revolution and the restoration of the republic. After a period of service in the armed forces which included the First Great War, he emerged as a leading voice of pan-Nusafi unity and Nusafi nationalism based on the concept of a Nusafi homeland.

In the early 20th century, the Nusafi Republic became increasingly authoritarian and dominated by the military. During this period. Yusuf emerged as the head of two competing traditions in the military, politics and wider society favouring expansion and unification of the Republic into or with other Nusafi-speaking regions.

Eventually Yusuf and his allies emerged victorious and partially restored democratic processes. Despite stepping back formally from politics, he remained as leader of the military and exercised significant influence in national politics. In the initial period after his rise to power, Yusuf did not actively pursue efforts at Nusafi unification however this changed when there was an uprising in a neighbouring kingdom which eventually brought on the Nusafi Wars.

Yusuf emerged almost completely victorious in this series of conflicts though he was unsuccessful at incorporating the territories of Jazara into the Confederation. Notable images like Yusuf Enters the Palace and Onward to Caca cemented the popular legacy of Yusuf in the post-war period.

Before the end of the Nusafi Wars, Yusuf launched an intervention in the Second Great War along the new northern borders of Confederation. The eventual declaration of war was instrumental in ensuring the victory of the republican unification's cause by emphasising Yusuf's image as a "defender of the Nusafi people" although it is a matter of historical debate whether the Confederation could even have maintained a war on two fronts.

Yusuf died shortly before the conclusion of the Second Great War and remains a dominant figure in the history of the early 20th century both in the Nusafi Confederation and the world. The political thought of Yusuf has become known as Yusufism and is the de facto state ideology of the Confederation.