Kordofan invaded
Subtitle: peripheral incorporation and social transformation in Islamic Africa
By: edited by Endre Stiansen and Michael Kevane.
Contributors: Stiansen, Endre.; Kevane, Michael.
Series: Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia,; v. 63
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Land tenure -- Sudan -- Kordofan -- History.; Kordofan (Sudan) -- Social conditions.; Kordofan (Sudan) -- Ethnic relations.
Description: This volume addresses economic change, regional politics and Islamisation in Kordofan, a large province in the Sudan. Kordofan's history is characterised by resistance and adaptation to expanding states and market forces causing both sectoral transformation and stagnation. The contributors in different ways examine the interplay between local and invading institutions, and include studies of Kordofan as a terra media between Darfur and Sinnar, international trade in the nineteenth century, the Mahdist revolt, the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (with particular reference to land tenure and tribal identity), Kordofan in Sudanese nationalist poetry, local politics in the Nuba Mountains and the conflict between religious orthodoxy and local practice.

The book will be of interest to scholars of Africa and Islam because of its novel focus on regional institutions and their relation to state structures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([281]-296) and index.