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Sufi orders played and continue to play an effective role in spreading Islam in many areas of the South, where these Southerners who visit Khartoum and witness the remembrance circles, which leave a psychological impact on these peoples, are influenced, and then they embrace the Islamic religion. From here, the Sufi orders contributed to spreading Islam on a wide scale, just as Islamic teaching methods contributed to enriching the Islamic scientific movement. The role of the Maghreb and West Africa (Bornu) in enriching the cultural movement: The West played a role, in which Egypt and the Hijaz participated, in enriching the Arab-Islamic cultural movement in those lands, because Sudan's connection with the Islamic Maghreb was continuous, especially after many Moroccan scholars traveled to those lands. The Arab Maghreb constituted a source of religious culture in Sudan, especially after many scholars from the Arab Maghreb migrated, and their migration to the lands of Sudan left an impact on the flourishing of Islamic culture. The people of the Maghreb were Maliki in doctrine, and therefore you see them specializing in teaching the jurisprudence of Malik, in which the people of the Maghreb specialized, and their works multiplied and their scientific production around that doctrine was strengthened. The Moroccans also brought Sufi influence to Sudan, just as the people of the Hijaz did. Among the Moroccan scholars who reached Sudan was Sheikh Al-Tilimsani Al-Maghribi, who arrived in the early eleventh century Hijri. His arrival was to Sheikh Al-Sudani Muhammad bin Issa Suwar, who was engaged in teaching the Holy Quran, theology, Tajweed, recitations, and grammar. This then helped spread the science of Tawhid and Tajweed in the island. 278

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