Native chiefs meeting with a king of Sinnar

Nimr Muhammad Nimr, king of Shendi He is perhaps best known for the burning of Ismail Pasha. Photo: Al-Shatir Busayli 'Abd al-Jalil, Ma'alim ta'rikh Sudan wadi al-Nil min al-qarn al-'ashir ila al-qarn al-tasi' 'ashar al-miladi (Cairo: maktabat al-'Arab, 1955), 131.

An eyewitness account of the burning of Ismail Pasha as given by an elderly Shaykh. Elias Toniolo and Richard Hill, eds. The Opening of the Nile Basin (London: Hurst, 1974), 241.

al-Nur Bey Muhammad Angara, a Dongolawi descendant of the Shaigi kings, cavalryman to the Turks, Zubayr Pasha’s chief of staff, and a Mahdist emir. John Ward, Our Sudan: Its Pyramids and Progress (London: John Murray, 1905), 327.

The patched jubba of the « martyr » Abdallahi al-Taishi John Ward, Our Sudan: Its Pyramids and Progress (London: John Murray, 1905), 180.

Bazingers, slaves soldiers employed by the bahhara traders Robert Hartman, Die Nilländer (Leipzig: G. Freytag, 1884), 73.

Costumes of the Barabra Robert Hartmann, Reise des Freiherrn Adalbert von Barnim durch Nord-Ost-Afrika in den Jahren 1859 und 1860 (Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1863), 158.

Sultan Bahr al-Din of Dar Masalit

Arabs wearing chainmail in the Nuba mountains. A. Radcliffe Dugmore, The Vast Sudan (London: Arrowsmith, 1924), frontispiece, facing 108, 114.

Cette sculpture représente un prêtre koushite vêtu d'un vêtement orné d'une tête de léopard et de glands, symbole à la fois du pouvoir religieux et royal. Ce vêtement fut plus tard adapté pour être porté par un roi.....

“Men of the Messiriya of southern Kordofan, c. 19/2. Note the coats of mail. SAVILE COLLECTION, PHOTOGRAPHER PROBABLY R.V. SAVILE.” M.W. Daly and L.E. Forbes, The Sudan: Photographs from the Sudan Archive, Durham University Library (Reading: Garnet Publishing, 1994), 49.

Outfit belonging to the Emir Osman Digna British Museum Af1980, 01.1–3

A view of Khartoum during the Turkia Richard Buchta, Sudan und der Mahdi (Stuttgart: Cotta, 1884), 71.

هذا السيف ذو المقبض الفضي يعتبر أحد الكنوز الأثرية التي تعكس الفن و الثقافة الإسلامية في وادي النيل الأوسط و صاحب هذا السيف هو السلطان ناصر بن محمد الذي حكم في السلطنة الزرقاء بين عامي ١٧٦٢-١٧٦٩م و نقش على السيف: الرجل ذو المجد و الكرامة هو دائماً زعيم مجتمعه.

Basket from the Erengai People of Darfur, Sudan Plant Fiber; Black and Orange Dyed Fibre. #SudaneseCulture #ثقافة_سودانية