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Karam Allāh Muḥammad Kurkusāwī
Karam Allāh Muḥammad Kurkusāwī (died 1903) was a Dongolāwī History of Mahdist Sudan, Mahdist emir (''amīr''). Born on the island of Kurkus, near Shendi, Karam Allāh worked with slave traders in the Bahr el Ghazal (region of South Sudan), Baḥr al-Ghazāl in his youth. In 1882 he went to al-Ubaiyaḍ to enlist with the Mahdists. In 1884 Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Mahdī sent Karam Allāh back to the Baḥr al-Ghazāl as emir and gave him an army. He captured the Khedivate of Egypt, Egyptian governor, Frank Lupton (Lupton Bey),For a brief biography, see E. Macro and F. Lupton, "Frank Miller Lupton", ''Sudan Notes and Records'' 28 (1947): 50–61. and the garrison. In 1885, when the Rizaiqāt of southern Dār Fūr rebelled by accepting as refugess some mutinous Mahdists from al-Ubaiyaḍ, Karam Allāh and his brother, Muḥammad Shaikh, led a large army against him. When the Rizaiqāt chief Madībbū Bey ʿAlī refused a summons, his forces were attacked near Shaqqa. They lost the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dongolāwī
Dongolawi is a Nubian language of northern Sudan. It is spoken by a minority of the Danagla in the Nile Valley, from roughly (south of Kerma) upstream to the bend in the Nile near ed Debba. ''Dongolawi'' is an Arabic term based on the town of Old Dongola, the centre of the historic Christian kingdom of Makuria (6th to 14th century). Today's Dongola was founded during the 19th century on the western side of the Nile. The Dongolawi call their language Andaandi "(the language) of our home". Nearly all Dongolawi speakers are also speakers of Sudanese Arabic, the lingua franca of Sudan. Arabic–Dongolawi bilingualism is replacive in the sense that Dongolawi is threatened by complete replacement by Arabic (Jakobi 2008). Dongolawi is closely related to Kenzi language, Kenzi (Mattokki), spoken in southern Egypt. They were once considered dialects of a single language, ''Kenzi-Dongolawi''. More recent research recognises them as distinct languages without a "particularly close gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |