XIVᵉ siècle – XVIᵉ siècle
Nile Valley, Blue Nile, White Nile, Kordofan and Darfur
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The Islamization of the Nilotic Sudan advanced through Arab nomadic migration, the settlement of Muslim clerics, Sufi activity, and the conversion of the Fundj ruling group. Yemeni missionary Ghulam Allah ibn ʿAʾid reached the Dongola region in the later fourteenth century, while subsequent scholars introduced knowledge of Islamic law. Under the Fundj kings, Islam received official encouragement, and by the sixteenth century its southern frontier was stabilized near the thirteenth parallel.
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After the weakening of northern Nubian Christianity, Arab nomads moved into the Gezira, the Butana, Kordofan, and southern Darfur. They settled around the metropolitan area of Aiwa, in Sennar, and as far south as Aba Island on the White Nile. Their movement extended Muslim influence beyond the Nile corridor and helped create the conditions for wider religious change.
Muslim clerics and holy men followed the nomads, arriving from older Islamic lands or after studying there. The earliest named missionary was Ghulam Allah ibn ʿAʾid, a Yemeni who reached the Dongola region in the second half of the fourteenth century and found local Muslims lacking teachers. In later centuries, Sufi missionaries settled in the Sudan and contributed to the preaching of Islam.
These missionaries converted the Fundj, described as a dark-skinned people originating from the upper Blue Nile. Under Fundj kings, Islam was encouraged and many scholars and pious men migrated to the kingdom. By the sixteenth century, the southern frontier of Islam had stabilized along approximately the thirteenth parallel, while Islamization proceeded together with Arabization across much of the country.
XIVᵉ siècle – XVIᵉ siècle
Nile Valley, Blue Nile, White Nile, Kordofan and Darfur
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
The Islamization of the Nilotic Sudan advanced through Arab nomadic migration, the settlement of Muslim clerics, Sufi activity, and the conversion of the Fundj ruling group. Yemeni missionary Ghulam Allah ibn ʿAʾid reached the Dongola region in the later fourteenth century, while subsequent scholars introduced knowledge of Islamic law. Under the Fundj kings, Islam received official encouragement, and by the sixteenth century its southern frontier was stabilized near the thirteenth parallel.
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Le récit
After the weakening of northern Nubian Christianity, Arab nomads moved into the Gezira, the Butana, Kordofan, and southern Darfur. They settled around the metropolitan area of Aiwa, in Sennar, and as far south as Aba Island on the White Nile. Their movement extended Muslim influence beyond the Nile corridor and helped create the conditions for wider religious change.
Muslim clerics and holy men followed the nomads, arriving from older Islamic lands or after studying there. The earliest named missionary was Ghulam Allah ibn ʿAʾid, a Yemeni who reached the Dongola region in the second half of the fourteenth century and found local Muslims lacking teachers. In later centuries, Sufi missionaries settled in the Sudan and contributed to the preaching of Islam.
These missionaries converted the Fundj, described as a dark-skinned people originating from the upper Blue Nile. Under Fundj kings, Islam was encouraged and many scholars and pious men migrated to the kingdom. By the sixteenth century, the southern frontier of Islam had stabilized along approximately the thirteenth parallel, while Islamization proceeded together with Arabization across much of the country.