Kordofan invaded : : peripheral incorporation and social transformation in Islamic Africa / / edited by Endre Stiansen and Michael Kevane.

• Superior document: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 63
• Author: Stiansen
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 63.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This volume addresses economic change, regional politics and Islamisation in Kordofan, a large province in the Sudan. Kordofan's history is characterised by resistance and adaptation to expanding states and market forces causing both sectoral transformation and stagnation. The contributions in different ways examine the interplay between local and invading institutions, and include studies of Kordofan as a terra media between Darfur and Sinnar, international trade in the nineteenth century, the Mahdist revolt, the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (with particular reference to land tenure and tribal identity), Kordofan in Sudanese nationalist poetry, local politics in the Nuba Mountains and the conflict between religious orthodoxy and local practice. The book will be of interest to scholars of Africa and Islam because of its novel focus on regional institutions and their relation to the state structures. This edited volume explores the history, social structure and economy of Kordofan in the Sudan. Representing several academic disciplines, each chapter is concerned with the long-term incorporation - through invasions - of the region into wider socio-political and economic structures.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Endre Stiansen and Michael Kevane -- Preface / Endre Stiansen and Michael Kevane -- Abbreviations / Endre Stiansen and Michael Kevane -- Introduction: Kordofan Invaded / Michael Kevane and Endre Stiansen -- Early Kordofan / Jay Spaulding -- The Gum Arabic Trade in Kordofan in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Endre Stiansen -- Females and the State in Mahdist Kordofan / David F. Decker -- Great White Chief: H.A. MacMichael and the Tribes of Kordofan / M.W. Daly -- Kordofan: From Tribes to Nazirates / Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk -- The Ngok: Emergence and Destruction of a Nilotic Protostate in Southwest Kordofan / Stephanie Beswick -- Arabic Literature and the Nationalist Imagination in Kordofan / Heather J. Sharkey -- Religion, Ethnicity and Class: The Role of the Tijāniyya Order in Al-Nahūd Town / Awad al-Sid al-Karsani -- Land-Tenure in Kordofan: Conflict Between the "Communalism" of Colonial Administrators and the "Individualism" of the Ḥamar / Mustafa Babiker -- Ethnicity, Resources and the Central State: Politics in the Nuba Mountains, 1950 to the 1990s / Martha Saavedra -- Tribesmen, Townsmen and the Struggle Over a Proper Lifestyle in Northern Kordofan / Kurt Beck -- Bibliography / Endre Stiansen and Michael Kevane -- Index / Endre Stiansen and Michael Kevane -- List of Contributors / Endre Stiansen and Michael Kevane -- Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia / Endre Stiansen and Michael Kevane.