The Evolution of the Islamic Judiciary in Sinnar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3912617 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J L Spaulding (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 408 |
| Publication date | 1977-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/216735 |
| OpenAlex | W1495442170 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The Funj kingdom of Sinnar dominated much of the northern Nilotic Sudan from about 1500 to 1820 and 1821. By origin an African kingdom similar to its neighbors and predecessors in the Sudanic region, Sinnar nevertheless was committed to Islam from its inception. During the course of its history an increasingly sophisticated appreciation of the intellectual and institutional implications of that commitment gradually permeated the society. Due to the nature of the available sources for Sinnar, some aspects of this transformation from African to Islamic practices are more easily visible than others; the present study attempts to describe in outline the evolution of the Islamic judiciary, or qadirate, an important and relatively accessible institution. Among the landmarks of the historical literature of a recent generation are a series of works on Islam in Africa, of which J.S. Trimingham's Islam in the Sudan may stand as the example most pertinent to this essay. 1 As indicated by his title, Trimingham and those of similar persuasion start from the presupposition that Islam is a thing, persona, or force to which one can attribute many or most of the historical changes that occurred in, for example, the northern riverine Sudan from the thirteenth century to the present. While Trimingham himself may regard the advance of Islam with less than wholehearted enthusiasm, Muslim historians also have been willing to accept the vision of progressive Islamization as an appropriate overall contextual framework within which to describe the history of the medieval and post-medieval riverine Sudan.2 The fundamental flaw in this approach
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1979 - 2025 (47) |
| Highly cited | No |