XVᵉ siècle – XVIIIᵉ siècle
Sudan
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Sudan between 1500 and 1800 was shaped by population movements, the expansion of Islam and Arabic culture, and the formation of Muslim savannah states. The Fundj and Fur sultanates interacted with non-Muslim African societies, while shifting frontiers divided northern and southern zones without creating a fixed ethnic boundary. Trade, slavery, migration, and political competition connected the region to Egypt, the Red Sea, Ethiopia, and western Sudan.
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Sudan’s history from 1500 to 1800 was marked by population movements into and out of the region. In the north, the gradual arrival of Muslim Arabs encouraged the integration of Sudan into the wider pan-Islamic world. Arabization and Islamization transformed many Sudanese communities, while Arab immigrants themselves became integrated into local societies.
These processes were far less influential in the southern Sudan, where Nilotic expansion checked the southward movement of Arab groups and the spread of Islam. The Shilluk and the Jieng remained serious threats to the northern Muslim states until the end of the period. The Bahr al-Ghazal and Bahr al-Arab rivers formed a broad and shifting cultural frontier rather than a sharply fixed line.
The frontier was socially and politically complex. People could become identified as Arabs, Fur, Fundj, Shilluk, Naath, or Jieng according to changing political and economic circumstances. Northern sultanates were themselves plural societies, and slavery further complicated their social formations, since people brought from the south served in armies or became assimilated into their new communities.
XVᵉ siècle – XVIIIᵉ siècle
Sudan
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
Sudan between 1500 and 1800 was shaped by population movements, the expansion of Islam and Arabic culture, and the formation of Muslim savannah states. The Fundj and Fur sultanates interacted with non-Muslim African societies, while shifting frontiers divided northern and southern zones without creating a fixed ethnic boundary. Trade, slavery, migration, and political competition connected the region to Egypt, the Red Sea, Ethiopia, and western Sudan.
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Sudan’s history from 1500 to 1800 was marked by population movements into and out of the region. In the north, the gradual arrival of Muslim Arabs encouraged the integration of Sudan into the wider pan-Islamic world. Arabization and Islamization transformed many Sudanese communities, while Arab immigrants themselves became integrated into local societies.
These processes were far less influential in the southern Sudan, where Nilotic expansion checked the southward movement of Arab groups and the spread of Islam. The Shilluk and the Jieng remained serious threats to the northern Muslim states until the end of the period. The Bahr al-Ghazal and Bahr al-Arab rivers formed a broad and shifting cultural frontier rather than a sharply fixed line.
The frontier was socially and politically complex. People could become identified as Arabs, Fur, Fundj, Shilluk, Naath, or Jieng according to changing political and economic circumstances. Northern sultanates were themselves plural societies, and slavery further complicated their social formations, since people brought from the south served in armies or became assimilated into their new communities.