A history of the Arabs in the Sudan and some account of the people who preceded them and of the tribes inhabiting Dárûr

Family lines exactly as the sources record them. Each link cites the book, the page, and the sentence it came from. These are the lines these particular books happened to write down — not a complete record of any family.

• 1. Taharka son of
  2. Piankhi

  Source — 50

  He was followed by Shabataka'-^, and the latter, about 688 B.C., by Taharka (a son of Piankhi), who

• 1. Tanutamon son of
  2. Shabaka

  Source — 50

  Tanutamon, a son of Shabaka (who had married Taharka's

• 1. Canaan son of
  2. Ham

  Source — 59

  These Kura'an ("Guraan"), whom el Hamdani^, by the way, includes with the Nuba, Zing and Zaghawa as descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, are a mixture of Tibbu and negro and at the

• 1. Kush son of
  2. Kana'an

  Source — 83

  He speaks of the descendants of "Kush the son of Kana'an," whom he refers to in general terms as " Habsha " and "Ahabish"

• 1. Muhammad " Kebkebe " son of
  2. Abukr " Naka " son of
  3. 'Omar son of
  4. Husayn son of
  5. 'Ibba son of
  6. Nafi' son of
  7. Haggar son of
  8. Ahmad el Dag

  Source — 109

  Muhammad " Kebkebe " son of Abukr " Naka " son of 'Omar son of Husayn son of 'Ibba son of Nafi' son of Haggar son of Ahmad el Dag.

• 1. Kahtan “Joctan” son of
  2. 'Abir

  Source — 159

  the one descended from Kahtan ("Joctan") the son of 'Abir

• 1. Isma'il “Ishmael” son of
  2. Abraham

  Source — 159

  traced their descent through 'Adnan to Isma'il, that is Ishmael the son of Abraham

• 1. Kumayl son of
  2. Kurra

  Source — 163

  The only Kumayl mentioned by Wiistenfeld was son of Kurra.

• 1. Hilal son of
  2. 'Amir

  Source — 173

  Hilal ibn 'Amir himself lived about 414 A.D.

• 1. Mu'izz son of
  2. Balkin “the Sanhagi, the runaway slave”

  Source — 174

  Mu'izz son of Balkin the Sanhagi, the runaway slave*.

• 1. 'Amr son of
  2. Shurahbil

  Source — 186

  Written by 'Amr ibn Shurahbil in Ramadan in the year 31."

• 1. Sulayman son of
  2. 'Abd el MaUk son of
  3. Marwan

  Source — 190

  the tradition relates that one Sulayman ibn 'Abd el MaUk ibn Marwan fled before el Saffah to Abyssinia and thence to the Sudan, where he married the daughter of a local king.

• 1. Kanun son of
  2. 'Abd el 'Aziz

  Source — 191

  at Aswan, between 'Abdulla and the Bega chief Kanun ibn 'Abd el 'Aziz^.

• 1. Kubra “ibn Surur” son of
  2. Surur

  Source — 195

  The hereditary king of Dongola was Kubra ibn Surur, and the southern district, 'Aloa, was also under his suzerainty.

• 1. Bishr son of
  2. Marwan

  Source — 196

  all alike owed ultimate allegiance to the great sheikh Abu Marwan Bishr (Bashir ibn Marwan) of the Rabi'a.

• 1. George son of
  2. Zacharias Israel

  Source — 212

  Here dwelt the Lord of the Mountain, whose eyes were put out by George, son of Zacharias Israel.

• 1. el Nasir Muhammad son of
  2. Kalaun

  Source — 214

  seeking aid from the Sultan el Nasir Muhammad ibn Kalaun

• 1. Kerenbes “the last Christian king of Dongola” son of
  2. Amai

  Source — 214

  Kerenbes^, the last Christian king of Dongola, but he was evidently less docile than his predecessors, for both in 1315 and 1316 troops had to be sent to Dongola. The second of these two expeditions was accompanied by 'Abdulla ibn Sanbu, nephew of Daud, and resulted in the capture of Kerenbes and his brother Abraam and their removal to Cairo ^. 'Abdulla ibn Sanbu—a Muhammadan—^was then made king. XLV A new favourite now appears for the Nubian throne, Kanz el Dowla the chief of the Beni Kanz settled round Aswan. He attacked 'Abdulla, put him to death, and made himself king. Whether he had allied himself by marriage with the royal house, in the usual manner, or whether he had no other right than might, we do not know. ^ Lane-Poole, Hist. p. 300, ^ If he claimed not to be a nomad he was told to pronounce the shibboleth "da^k," the k of which the Egyptian would pronounce as an 'ain and the Beduin as a hard g. , ^ Ibn Khaldun (ed. ar. Vol. 5, p. 429, Bk. 11) calls him "Ay" {^^) and says he does not know if he was "Semamun's" successor or whether any other ruler interposed between the reigns of the two. He dates his death in 1316, but is probably in error. * El Makrizi, Kit. el Seluk, ap. Quatremere (11, 114): cp. Lane-Poole, p. 299. ^ Makrfzi, loc. cit. Ibn Khaldun calls him {loc. cit.) "Kerbays" and makes him brother as well as successor of Amai ("Ay"). Makrfzi 's account is adopted in the following paragraphs. * Ibn Khaldun {loc. cit.) gives " 'Abdulla Nashli." He says he was one of the Nubian royal family who had lately settled in Egypt and been converted to Islam. Ibn Khaldun's account of what follows is that "Kerbays" fled to the Mek of el Abwab and that the Sultan requested the Mek to hand him over and that the Mek complied. Kerenbes must have been sent to Egypt by way of the Red Sea, e.g. via 'Aidhab, for after 'Abdulla's murder, according to Ibn Khaldun, the rebels sent to el Abwab for Kerenbes and only then learnt that he was in Egypt. When the Sultan heard of the episode he sent Kerenbes to them and he became their king.

• 1. 'Abd el Kerim son of
  2. Yame

  Source — 232

  'Abd el Kerim ibn Yame"

• 1. Woda son of
  2. Yame

  Source — 232

  Woda, the son of Yame, belonging to the tribe of the Gemir, who at that time were settled in Shendy, and...had emigrated with his country- men into the regions which afterwards, in honour of him it is said, were comprised under the name of Waday...

• 1. Duab son of
  2. Ghanim

  Source — 269

  in the second it is limited to the riverain people whose ancestor was Duab ibn Ghanim and whose chief habitat has been between the mouth of the Atbara and the Shabluka cataract since the beginning of the sixteenth century, if not for longer.

• 1. 'Agib I son of
  2. 'Abdulla “Gema'a”

  Source — 279

  A common source of confusion has been ignorance of the fact that every " Mdngil" after the time of 'Agib I, the son of 'Abdulla, was known, sometimes by his own name, but more commonly by that of "Wad Agib."

• 1. 'Agib son of
  2. 'Abdulla

  Source — 282

  Of these, it is said, 'Agib was the youngest and the only son of his mother, a daughter of Sherif Hammad Abu Denana^. The mother of the others, it is thought, was " a girl given to him ['Abdulla] by the king of the Fung at the time of the advance of the Arabs to conquer the Sudan."

• 1. Sha'a el Din son of
  2. el Tuaym

  Source — 285

  Its ancestor was Nail, son of the Sha'a el Din wad el Tuaym, whose tomb, with that of his wife Bayaki bint el Mek^, is still to be seen at

• 1. Muhammad Nahi son of
  2. Hamid

  Source — 291

  The word " Nawahia" is said to be formed from that of " Muhammad Nahi," son of Hamid (by Um Kassawayn).

• 1. 'Ali son of
  2. el Tom

  Source — 349

  The present chief of the tribe, which is now richer than at any previous period, is 'Ali the son of the el Tom beheaded in 1883.

• 1. Sherif Ghulamulla son of
  2. Aid

  Source — 367

  the Sherif Ghulamulla ibn 'Aid, who settled in Dongola about the second half of the fourteenth century and conferred the benefits of his learning on the ignorant autochthonous population.

• 1. Idri's son of
  2. Arbab

  Source — 375

  at 'Aylafun, where the tomb of Idri's wad Arbab^ is still tended by his descendants