Kordafan Invaded: Peripherial Incorporation and Social Transformation in Islamic AfricaEndre Stiansen, Michael Kevane This volume addresses economic change, regional politics and Islamisation in Kordofan, a large province in the Sudan. Kordofan's history is characterised by resistance and adaptation to expanding states and market forces causing both sectoral transformation and stagnation. The contributions in different ways examine the interplay between local and invading institutions, and include studies of Kordofan as a terra media between Darfur and Sinnar, international trade in the nineteenth century, the Mahdist revolt, the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (with particular reference to land tenure and tribal identity), Kordofan in Sudanese nationalist poetry, local politics in the Nuba Mountains and the conflict between religious orthodoxy and local practice. The book will be of interest to scholars of Africa and Islam because of its novel focus on regional institutions and their relation to the state structures. This edited volume explores the history, social structure and economy of Kordofan in the Sudan. Representing several academic disciplines, each chapter is concerned with the long-term incorporation - through invasions - of the region into wider socio-political and economic structures. |
Contents
Kordofan invaded | 1 |
Early Kordofan | 46 |
The gum arabic trade in Kordofan in | 60 |
Females and the state in Mahdist Kordofan | 87 |
H A MacMichael and the tribes | 101 |
from tribes to nazirates | 120 |
emergence and destruction of a Nilotic | 145 |
Arabic literature and the nationalist imagination | 171 |
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Abū Abyei Agricultural Aḥmad al-'Abbāsī al-Malik al-Nahūd al-Ubayyid Alī Anglo-Egyptian areas authorities Baqqāra bayt al-mal Bidayriyya British Cambridge central Kordofan century Civil Secretary colonial Condominium culture Darfur Deng Majok Development Dinka District Commissioner economic Egyptian ethnic farmers females Funj Governor groups gum arabic gum gardens gum trade Hamar Ḥawāzma History Ibid identity Indirect Rule institutions Islamic jallāba Jay Spaulding Kababish Khalifa Khartoum Kordofan Kurt Beck labour land lifestyle London MacMichael Mahdi Mahdist Mahdiyya merchants military Muḥammad Muslim Nahud Najila Native Administration Nazir Ngok Nile Valley NMFU nomads Northern Kordofan Nuba Mountains officials Omdurman organisation Oxford Petherick political province regime region religious rural Ṣāliḥ shaykhs Sinnar slaves social society southern Sudan Sudan Government Sudanese sultan Tambal tariqa Tawfiq Tijāni Tijaniyya tion town tribal leaders tribes tugundi Umma Party umum union University of Bergen University Press village Western Kordofan western Sudan