((Conclusion)) Through this study of Islam and Arabism in the Nile Valley Sudan before the Egyptian conquest of Sudan in 1830 AD, it becomes clear to us that the cultural, commercial, economic, social, and intellectual ties with that Islamic Arab homeland are ancient relations, indeed ancient, dating back many centuries before the appearance of the lights of the Islamic call, whose appearance was a harbinger on the stage of religious and political events in the world, among the fundamental factors in coloring the country with that Arab-Islamic hue that we witness contemporary Sudan upon today, which is trying to play its Islamic role in the heart of the African continent as a bridge of Arabism and Islam to the interior of the continent with its many countries.

Islam rushed into Sudan through natural channels that were the standards or pathways through which those Arab currents seeped into Sudan. Hence, Arabism is as authentic as can be in the land of Sudan and was not sudden, imported, or temporary as some writers tried to portray in people's minds. Rather, it is deep and as old as Sudanese history, indeed as old as humanity in those lands. This is because Sudan, in its various parts, especially the eastern and southeastern part near the Red Sea, had a form of settled Arabism before the spread of Islam.

This is because Arab migrations to that part witnessed a historical dimension extending to seven centuries BC. Hence, the settlement of Arab man in those ancient periods contributed to the existence of the Arab element alongside other elements, if it had not preceded them in settlement, rooting, and civilization, and the establishment of civilizational landmarks before those peoples who inhabited the southern regions of Sudan around the lake region and the Congo basin.

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