The Ottoman pasha's government introduces new commercial…
1852 CE to 1863 CE
The change reduced the prestige of the qadis, Islamic judges whose sharia courts are confined to dealing with matters of personal status.
The Turkiyyah also encourages a religious orthodoxy favored in the Ottoman Empire.
The government builds mosques and staffs religious schools and courts with teachers and judges trained at Cairo's Al-Azhar University.
The government favors the Khatrniyyah, a traditional religious order, because its leaders cooperate with the regime, but Sudanese Muslims condemn the official orthodoxy as decadent because it has rejected popular beliefs and practices.
Groups
Nubians
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Arab people
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Ja'alin tribe
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Christians, Monophysite
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Christianity, Chalcedonian
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Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
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Islam
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Muslims, Sunni
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Fur people (Nilo-Saharan tribe)
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Funj people
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Ottoman Empire
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Sennar, Funj Sultanate of
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Shaigiya
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Egypt, (Ottoman) Viceroyalty of
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Sudan, Turco-Egyptian
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