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Title: | Kordofan invaded: peripheral incorporation and social transformation in Islamic Africa |
Editors: | Stiansen, Endre Kevane, Michael |
Chapter(s): | Present |
Year: | 1998 |
Volume: | 63 |
Pages: | 303 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia (ISSN 1385-3376) |
City of publisher: | Leiden |
Publisher: | Brill |
ISBN: | 9004110496 |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | regional development history |
Abstract: | The history of Kordofan, a large province in the Sudan and one of the largest peripheries of Islamic Africa, is characterized by resistance and adaptation to expanding States and market forces. Social, political, cultural and economic invasions from the centre generated dynamic processes through which non-State institutions were constituted. The eleven contributions to this collective volume examine in different ways the interplay between local and invading institutions. They 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, Ngok Dinka political institutions, local politics in the Nuba Mountains, the role of religion, specifically the Tijaniyya order or 'tariqa', and the conflict between religious orthodoxy and local practice. Contributors: Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk, Awad al-Sid al-Karsani, Kurt Beck, Stephanie Beswick, M.W. Daly, David Decker, Michael Kevane, Mustafa Babiker, Martha Saavedra, Jay Spaulding, Heather J. Sharkey, Endre Stiansen. |