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 Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur (Re: احمد حامد صالح)
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, ‘
The Peoples of Africa
–
An Ethnohistorical Dictionary’
, by James
Olsen refers to the ‘Tunjur’ of Sudan as follows:
“In the sixteenth century, there was a powerful Tunjur kingdom in Sudan, but
its power was
eclipsed by the rise of the Fur empire in the seventeenth century
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The Daju kingdom used to rule a large area stretching from east of Kanemin the West to Dar fur and Kordofanin the East during the period prior to the Islamic contact. It was displaced by Tunjur in about the end of the 13th to the beginning of the 14th century. Islam is said to be introduced to Dar fur by Tunjur who claim of being Arab origin reached Dar fur by way of Bornu and Waddai. The first Tunjur king is said to have been Ahmed-el-Makurwho married the daughter of the last Daju monarch
http://www.ancientsudan.org/articles_ibrahim_...sa_westernsudan.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC83b8xEOnE
Tunjur
Tunjur (Tungur). Tradition, supported by archaeological remains, records the existence of a Tunjur kingdom seated in northern Darfur (Sudan), powerful in the sixteenth century and destroyed by the rising power of the Fur at the beginning of the seventeenth century. A perhaps less important Tunjur kingdom flourished in Wadai (Chad) at about the same time until it was ended by the Maba supporters of Abd al-Karim early in the seventeenth century. The Tunjur, or at least some of them, migrated to the west and settled among the Kanembu of Mao (Kanem), where they failed in trying to found an autonomous kingdom.
It is their pride in past glories and bitterness against those who later oppressed them which today prevent the few remaining Tunjur from disappearing altogether.
The Tunjur are zealous Muslims and may be described as orthodox Sunni following the Maliki school of jurisprudence and following mainly the teachings of the Risala. Traces of pre-Islamic rituals do exist and deserve further research, but this is a difficult and sensitive matter.
The Tunjur are a Muslim people, living in central Darfur, a province of Sudan. They are mainly farmers, and closely associated with the Fur, even if differently from these they have been fully Arabized. Like the Fur and the Zaghawa, after the start of the Darfur conflict in February 2003, many Tunjur were displaced and some killed. A number of Tunjur took part to the fight against the Sudanese government fighting under the banners of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM).
Historically, the Tunjur were one of the ruling dynasties of Darfur, circa 1200-1600. Little is known about them, or about their predecessors (the Daju) or their successors (the Keira), beyond the fact that they were probably centralized, slave-based polities sharing a fondness for stone walling. The precise timing of Islamization is unclear.
It is not known why the Tunjur dynasty collapsed, apparently in the late sixteenth century. Oral tradition suggests that the last Tunjur ruler Shau Dorshid was driven out by his own subjects because of his dispiriting habit of making them cut the tops off mountains for him to build palaces on. His capital is said to have been the site of Ain Farah, which lies in the Furnung Hills some 130 kilometers north-west of El Fasher and comprises large-scale stone and brick walling. It has an enduring appeal and has been visited or described many times. Ain Farah moved one author to quote Macaulay – “like an eagle’s nest that hangs on the crest”, for it is built some 100 meters above the spring, is characterized by several hundred brick and stone structures and terraces, and is defended by steep ridges and by a massive stone wall three or four kilometers long. There is a brick and stone edifice which appears to have served as a mosque, a large stone group which may have served as a public building, and a main group on the highest point of the ridge, described variously as a royal residence or military defens
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| The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | احمد حامد صالح | 07-21-13, 04:03 PM |
| Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | Ali Abdalla Hassan | 07-21-13, 04:40 PM |
| Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | بريمة محمد | 07-21-13, 09:05 PM |
| Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | بريمة محمد | 07-21-13, 09:31 PM |
| Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | Kabar | 07-22-13, 11:33 AM |
| Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | Kabar | 07-22-13, 11:35 AM |
| Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | احمد حامد صالح | 07-22-13, 07:07 PM |
| Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | احمد حامد صالح | 07-22-13, 07:51 PM |
| Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | Ali Abdalla Hassan | 07-23-13, 06:45 AM |
| Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | أنور أدم | 07-23-13, 01:22 PM |
| Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | محمد على طه الملك | 07-23-13, 03:44 PM |
| Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | Kabar | 07-24-13, 07:05 AM |
| Re: The Kingdom of Uri .... Darfur | محمدين محمد اسحق | 07-24-13, 10:51 AM |
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