Unfortunately, Isma'il's Southern policy lacks consistency.In 1871…

1876 CE to 1887 CE

Unfortunately, Isma'il's Southern policy lacks consistency.

In 1871 he named a notorious Arab slave trader, Rahina Mansur al-­Zubayr, as governor of the newly created province of Bahr al-Ghazal.

Al-Zubayr had used his army to pacify the province and to eliminate his competition in the slave trade.

In 1874 he had invaded Darfur, then offered the region as a province to the khedive.

Later that year, al­-Zubayr had defied Cairo when the khedive attempted to relieve him of his post and had defeated an Egyptian force sent to oust him.

Gordon, after he becomes Sudan's governor-general, ended al-Zubayr's slave trading, disbands his army, and sends him back to Cairo.

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Khartoum > Al-Khartum Al-Khartum Sudan View →

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Charles George Gordon View → Isma'il Pasha View →

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Nubians View → Arab people View → Ja'alin tribe View → Christians, Monophysite View → Christianity, Chalcedonian View → Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria View → Islam View → Muslims, Sunni View → Fur people (Nilo-Saharan tribe) View → Funj people View → Ottoman Empire View → Sennar, Funj Sultanate of View → Baggara View → Shaigiya View → Egypt, (Ottoman) Viceroyalty of View → Sudan, Turco-Egyptian View → Egypt, Khedivate of View →

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Weapons View → Slaves View →

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