The Waves Supporting the Spread of Islam in Eastern Sudan during the Middle Ages

(Migrations and wandering Arab jurists and mystics as a model)

Abstract

 This paper aims to answer the question of how Islam spread in the eastern Sudan during the medieval era.  Arab Muslims through their migration to Sudan and their response to ideological and doctrinal deviation, as well as the contributions of Arab Sufis through their wanderings in Sudan and their arrival to people in their places and urging them to remembrance, jurisprudence, worship and memorization of the Qur’an. The topic acquires its importance from the fact that it represents one of the topics of medieval history in Sudan and deals with one of the components and components of the Sudanese personality, which is Islam.  In writing his research, the researcher followed the narrative historical method with analysis whenever it was required and possible without prejudice to the value content of the document.  The Middle Ages in Eastern Sudan, and the result was a society that carried Islam with influence and influence.