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| Title: | Gifts Worthy of Kings: An Episode in Dar Fur-Taqali Relations |
| Authors: | Kapteijns, Lidwien Spaulding, Jay |
| Year: | 1990 |
| Periodical: | Sudanic Africa |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Pages: | 61-70 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Sudan |
| Subjects: | Darfur polity Taqali polity traditional rulers history traditional polities historical sources History and Exploration |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/25653176 |
| Abstract: | Among the last independent kings of the Sudan were 'Ali Dinar b. Zakariya' b. Mu.hammad al-Fa.dl of Dar Fur (1898-1916) and Jayli b. Adam Umm Dabbalu of Taqali (1896-1916). Not only were the reigns of these two rulers almost coterminous, but they were also both members of a single and distinctive generational cohort of noblemen who in several respects shared a common historical experience. This study argues that it is highly probable that the two future kings became personally acqainted during their period of subordinate service to the Mahdiya. Both were able to assert their claims to rule in the west as a consequence of the waning of Mahdist authority there at the close of the 19th century. The study pays particular attention to a shipping list that would seem to have accompanied goods sent from 'Ali Dinar to Makk Jayli of Taqali, probably within the context of ongoing royal commercial and diplomatic exchanges. The document is undated, and could have originated at any time during the interval between 1898 and 1916, when both kings reigned. The diplomatic gifts which 'Ali Dinar sent to Makk Jayli fell into two categories: fancy ready-made clothing and 'instruments of State'. The document provides a glimpse of the noblemen of Taqali before the time in which distinction came to be bestowed by bureaucratically-minded foreign conquerors in the form of British robes of honour. Notes, ref. |
