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Among the descendants of Sheikh Muhammad al-Qanawi al-Masri, Sheikh Muhammad Akduwai emerged, who began teaching Risala, grammar, theology, principles of jurisprudence, and logic, and many circles gathered around him. Similarly, in the Fung era, Sheikh Muhammad bin Ali bin Qadam al-Kimani, a student of al-Khatib al-Shirbini, arrived in Sudan from Egypt. He first settled in the land of Bar, then in the land of the Fung, and later resided in Berber until his death there. All the sheikhs who appeared in Sudan took knowledge from him, including the science of inheritance. He played a role no less than that of Sheikh Abdullah al-Arki, Qadi Dassin al-Shafi'i, Sheikh Abd al-Rahman bin Hamadtu, Sheikh Ibrahim al-Faradi, and Sheikh Judah, the author of the poem. Sheikh Jad Allah al-Shukri also visited Egypt, and he was pious, God-fearing, devout, ascetic, and humble.
Among those from Sudan who studied under Sheikh al-Qanawi were Sheikh Muhammad bin Isa Suwar al-Dhahab, then Sheikh Qazm, who settled in the city of Berber teaching Shafi'i jurisprudence. He later traveled to the city of Arbaji, and Qadi Wushayni, the judge of Arbaji, studied under him.
The migration of Sudanese students to Egypt is a fact that needs no clarification. It is sufficient to mention what was previously clarified about the establishment of the Sannawiyya endowment in Al-Azhar for the students of the Fung Sultanate and an endowment for the students of Darfur, whose capital was Al-Fashir. This relationship remained continuous and unbroken until it was established after the Egyptian conquest. The Egyptian influence on Sudanese culture is very clear, represented by the Egyptian character of this culture in the teaching of jurisprudence, logic, and monotheism, and the spread of the Maliki and Shafi'i schools of thought.
One of the reasons for the small number of Egyptian scholars visiting Sudan during the Fung era might be the difficulty of travel and the danger of the road due to the lack of security, in addition to the hardship and natural dangers of these routes. However, the role of Egyptian scholars was very clear during the era of Egyptian-Sudanese unity under Muhammad Ali, because the policy