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Funj origins: A critique and new evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

P. M. Holt
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The Funj Sultanate was the most easterly of the chain of Muslim dynastic States which at one time stretched south of the Sahara through Bilād al-Sūdān. Founded early in the sixteenth Christian century (tenth Hijri¯; century) by a king traditionally called ‘Amāra Dūnqas, its centre was on the Blue Nile, around the town of Sennar (Sinnār).

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The Journal of African History , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 1963 , pp. 39 - 55
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