SWAN SONG IN THE NILE VALLEY: THE MAMLŪK STATELET IN DONGOLA (1812 – 1820)

• Authors: Beška Emanuel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article focuses on the last years of Mamlūk rule in the Nile Valley. First, the article briefly discusses the all-out war between the Egyptian viceroy Muhammad cAlī Pasha and the Mamlūks, and the subsequent withdrawal of the latter to Dongola in northern Sudan. This is followed by a description of the situation in Nubia and Dongola at the beginning of the 19th century. The main goal of the paper is to depict the fortunes of the short-lived Mamlūk statelet in Dongola, which existed throughout the second decade of the 19th century in a state of incessant war with its Shāyqīya neighbours, only to disappear due to the Turco-Egyptian expedition of conquest against the Funj kingdom of Sinnār led by Ismācīl Kāmil Pasha, son of the Egyptian viceroy Muḥammad cAlī Pasha, in 1820.

Keywords

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DONGOLA; FUNJ KINGDOM; MAMLŪKS; TURCO-EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION; NILE VALLEY

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 315 – 329

Contributors

author

Beška Emanuel

• Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic