Bādī II Abū Daqn, known as The Bearded (r. 1644/5 – 1681), was a ruler of the

Kingdom of Sennar The Funj Sultanate, also known as Funjistan, Sultanate of Sennar (after its capital Sennar) or Blue Sultanate due to the traditional Sudanese convention of referring to black people as blue () was a monarchy in what is now Sudan, northwestern E ...

. He was the son of

Rabat I Rabat I (1616/7 - 1644/5) was a ruler of the Kingdom of Sennar. According to James Bruce, he was the son of Badi I. He intrigued in Ethiopian politics a number of times. Early in his reign he detained the Coptic bishop Abba Yeshaq, who had passe ...

and ascended to the throne in 1644/5. During the reign of Badi II, the Kingdom of

Taqali Taqali (also spelled Tegali) was a state of Nuba peoples which existed in the Nuba Mountains, in modern-day central Sudan. It is believed to have been founded in the eighteenth century, though oral traditions suggest its formation two centuries ...

to the west was defeated and made a vassal state. He captured northern and western parts of

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and extended Funj territory across the

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, occupying the northern half of the

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in 1650 and defeating the Abdallabi tribes who were supported by the Ottoman Empire. He defeated the Darfur Sultan Musa by the mid-1650s and reduced the tribal chieftaincies northward along the Nile to feudatories. Through his conquests, Badi II formed a slave army, drawing primarily from the population of Nubia. The captured slaves were taken to Sennar where their influence grew and they formed a military caste that later fought with the aristocracy for control of state offices. Under Badi II, Sennar became the fixed capital of the Funj Sultanate. During his reign written documents concerning administrative matters first appeared, with the oldest known dating to 1654. Badi II died in 1681. He was succeeded by Unsa II.E.A Wallis Budge, ''A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia'', 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970)

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