Funj Sultanate (Sennar)

Overview

The Funj Sultanate, also known as Funjistan, Sultanate of Sennar after its capital of Sennar, or Blue Sultanate was a kingdom in what is now Sudan, northwestern Eritrea and western Ethiopia. Founded in 1504 by the Funj people, it quickly converted to Islam, although this conversion was only nominal. Until a more orthodox form of Islam took hold in the 18th century, the state remained an "African empire with a Muslim façade", coming to rule over an ethnically diverse population.

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Borders & accuracy

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

• SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
• DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
• SNAPSHOT1700
• POLITY TYPEtributary

Wars of this empire3

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Egyptian Conquest of Sudan1820–24
  Major conflict
• Funj Conquest of Alodia1500–04
  Significant
• Funj–Ethiopian War (1730s)1730–45
  Regional