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Title:Mahdist faith and Sudanic tradition: the history of the Masalit Sultanate 1870-1930
Author:Kapteijns, LidwienISNI
Year:1985
Pages:366
Language:English
Series:Monographs from the African Studies Centre
City of publisher:London
Publisher:KPI, Kegan Paul International
ISBN:0710300905
Geographic term:Sudan
Subjects:Dar Masalit polity
history
traditional polities
Abstract:A study of the emergence and development of one of the most recent Sudanic kingdoms, the Sultanate of Dar Masalit, in the period 1870-1930. It describes the state from the basis upwards; an analysis of the different social groups making up Masalit society in relation to each other and to their main source of livelihood, the land, precedes a description of the new central government and ruling class which emerged in the decade 1888-1898. As the book is regional in approach, it also pays attention to developments in the other sultanates of the eastern Sudanic belt, those of Wadai, Dar Fur, Dar Sila, Dar Tama and Dar Qimr, all adjoining Dar Masalit.