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Key

The Funj kings of Sennar The Abdallab sheikhs of Qarri Ethiopia under Susenyos bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. O. G. S. Crawford, The Fung Kingdom of Sennar (1951): Ajib and Karkoj (ch. XV), the first Abyssinian war from the Chronicle of Susenyos (ch. XVI), Badi II (ch. XVII), chronology (appendix) — source
  2. P. M. Holt, The Sudan of the Three Niles: the Funj Chronicle 910–1288/1504–1871 (1999), pp. 7–10: Adlan, Karkoj, Idris's safe-conduct, Badi Abu Diqn and the Shilluk — source
  3. H. A. MacMichael, A History of the Arabs in the Sudan, vol. 2 (1922): the Tabaqat of Wad Dayf Allah — Idris's prophecies to Ajib and Badi (No. 141), Adlan deposed at Mushu (No. 241), Mismar in 1659 and his deposition (Nos. 58, 66) — source
  4. Funj Sultanate — Wikipedia (O'Fahey & Spaulding, Kingdoms of the Sudan, 1974; Spaulding & Abu Salim, Public Documents from Sinnar, 1989): Ajib's invasion, the Abdallab treaty, the lame horses, Sennar as fixed capital, the 1654 document — source
  5. Abdallabi tribe — Wikipedia (Holt & Daly, A History of the Sudan): Ajib, the Manjilak, Qarri, Karkoj and the amnesty — source
  6. Susenyos I — Wikipedia: accession at Gol (1607), Abd al-Qadir's vassalage, the war with Sennar, Fatima at Danqaz — source
  7. Badi I — Wikipedia (Weld Blundell's Royal Chronicle; Bruce): Susenyos's gifts and Badi's answer — source
  8. Badi II — Wikipedia (Beswick 2014: the Shilluk war of c. 1650; Spaulding & Abu Salim 1989) — source
  9. Rabat I — Wikipedia (Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands): the detained bishop and the war of 1618–19 — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1783 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Sennar, 1600–1660

How did the Funj kings, driven from Sennar by their own northern viceroy in 1606, come to make and unmake his heirs by 1660?
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