The Historiography of the Northern Sudan from 1500 to the Establishment of British Colonial Rule: A Critical Overview

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Title:	The Historiography of the Northern Sudan from 1500 to the Establishment of British Colonial Rule: A Critical Overview
Author:	Kapteijns, Lidwien
Year:	1989
Periodical:	International Journal of African Historical Studies
Volume:	22
Issue:	2
Pages:	251-266
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Sudan
Subjects:	history 1600-1699 1700-1799 1800-1899 bibliographies (form) Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) colonialism History and Exploration
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/220033
Abstract:	Survey of the historical literature on the Sudan, published during the last twenty-five years, and dealing with the period from 1500 to the establishment of British colonial rule in 1898. It does not aim at being exhaustive; instead, it examines some major themes which are illustrated with representative examples. Three periods are distinguished. First, the late precolonial period, from about 1500 up to the Turkish conquest of the Nile Valley in 1821 and Dar Fur in 1874. Three themes dominate the historical literature about this period: the history of the Sudan's last precapitalist states, the introduction of capitalism, and the history of Islam in the Sudan. The second period, the Turkiyya, is the era of Turco-Egyptian rule (1821-1881), and the third is that of Sudanese independence under Mahdist rule (1881-1898). Notes, ref.