It is recorded that the Funj retained the current ruler of Fazughli instead of replacing him with a new provincial governor.
As vassals of Sennar, the governors of Fazughli received the title of manjil.
According to Spaulding, the Hamaj remained Christian for at least a generation after the conquest, but by the mid-18th century they had converted to Islam.
A Christian princedom, Shaira, was said to have existed in the Ethiopian-Sudanese border area as late as the early 1770s.
Integrated into the sultanate of Sennar, the Hamaj would become one of its most dominant ethnic groups and Fazughli, together with the two other southern provinces of Kordofan and Alays, became its most important province, which was mostly due to the significance of its gold for Sennar's economy.
In 1761–1762 Muhammad Abu Likaylik, a military commander originating from Fazughli, assembled a "heterogenous collection of neo-Alodian noblemen, warlords, slave soldiers, merchants, and fuqara (religious teachers)" and seized control of the sultanate, initiating the Hamaj Regency, which lasted until the Turko-Egyptian invasion of 1821.
It is recorded that the Funj retained the current ruler of Fazughli instead of replacing him with a new provincial governor. As vassals of Sennar, the governors of Fazughli received the title of manjil. According to Spaulding, the Hamaj remained Christian for at least a generation after the conquest, but by the mid-18th century they had converted to Islam. A Christian princedom, Shaira, was said to have existed in the Ethiopian-Sudanese border area as late as the early 1770s. Integrated into the sultanate of Sennar, the Hamaj would become one of its most dominant ethnic groups and Fazughli, together with the two other southern provinces of Kordofan and Alays, became its most important province, which was mostly due to the significance of its gold for Sennar's economy. In 1761–1762 Muhammad Abu Likaylik, a military commander originating from Fazughli, assembled a "heterogenous collection of neo-Alodian noblemen, warlords, slave soldiers, merchants, and fuqara (religious teachers)" and seized control of the sultanate, initiating the Hamaj Regency, which lasted until the Turko-Egyptian invasion of 1821.
Kingdom of Fazughli