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Title: | The Tunjur: A Central Sudanic Mystery |
Author: | O'Fahey, Rex S. |
Year: | 1980 |
Periodical: | Sudan Notes and Records |
Volume: | 61 |
Pages: | 47-60 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Sudan Chad |
Subjects: | history Tundjur polity Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration |
Abstract: | Among a number of the peoples of the Central and Eastern Sudanic Belt (that is, from Lake Chad to the Nile) are preserved traditions of a great empire established and ruled over by the Tunjur which was both the forerunner and, indirectly, the progenitor of the Dar Fur and Wada'i. Sultanates. In both north-eastern Chad and in Dar Fur Province in the Sudan Republic there are a number of sites, several large and spectacular, associated with the Tunjur. However, there are no explicit contemporary references to this Tunjur empire. The main conclusion of this article: the downfall of the Tunjur in Wada'i appears to fit a common Sudanic pattern of the overthrow of a semi-pagan dynasty by a Muslim reformer, while their supersession in Dar Fur remains enshrouded in dynastic subterfuge, but their origins and the nature of their hegemony are still a mystery. Notes, ref. |