Islam and its role in Sudanese-Egyptian relations.

Administration which was not fully known to the Sudanese, and ignorance of religious matters was widespread among the general public and the elite. So much so that people did not know the number of divorces, or perhaps did not care about them. Until the arrival of Sheikh Mahmoud Al-Arki, a Sudanese scholar, who insisted on Sheikh Al-Laqani, and he ordered the counting of divorces. People used to divorce their women on the same day they divorced them.

In the early days of Ajib al-Manjak, Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Boulad came from Egypt to the land of the Shayqiyya, which is part of Sudan. He taught jurisprudence according to the Maliki school and its books, such as the book of Ibn Shu'ayb, known as Al-Jundi, one of the great scholars of the Maliki school in Egypt. He re-explained his summary of "Jami' al-Ummahat" and "Risalat Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani," whose author is Abdullah Abu Muhammad bin Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani, one of the most famous Maliki scholars of his time, and he has many works in jurisprudence.

Sheikh Muhammad bin Ali bin Qarm, who was a Shafi'i, also brought the Shafi'i school to Sudan from Egypt. Among those who studied under the Egyptian Shafi'i scholar Muhammad bin Ali, from the Sudanese, were Sheikh Abdullah Al-Arki, Judge Dushayn, and Abdul Rahman, son of Hamadtu.

Sheikh Muhammad Al-Masri also came from Egypt during the reign of Muhammad Al-Masri in the Berber region and taught creed there. He was a Maliki scholar who took the Maliki school from Sheikh Salem bin Muhammad Al-Sunhuri, the Mufti of the Malikis. He has many works, including his marginalia on Mukhtasar Khalil. Sheikh Muhammad Al-Masri visited Arbaji and Sannar and finally settled in Berber, where he taught people. He is mentioned in the city of Berber, where he built a new mosque. This also indicates his connection with the ruling system at that time in the state of Sennar. He practiced the judiciary with integrity and honesty, and he fought bribery in this profession, which seems to have been present at that time in an obvious way. He introduced a new system in judicial administration by allowing the wages of the scribe of the judgment. He died in Berber.

Among Sheikh Al-Masri's students from Sudan were Sheikh Musa bin Ya'qub Abu Qahsa and Sharif Abdul Rahman. He also took Sheikh Muhammad bin Issa, a distinguished Sudanese scholar, as a student. Among those who took knowledge from him were Sheikh Musa bin Ya'qub Abu Qahsa and Sharif Abdul Rahman.

Sheikh Al-Makki Al-Nahwi Al-Rabatabi studied under him and has a large number of...