The Beni-Amer people became politically significant in the 16th-century when their founder Amer Kunu – the son of a Muslim holy man named Ali Nabit
[6] – joined forces with the Funj and the
Ja'alin to defeat the Belew rulers of Eritrea and the surrounding region. Amer's descendants, or
Beni-Amer in Arabic, became the new ruling class called
Nabtabs who allied themselves with
Diglal as the paramount chief ruler.
[5][7] A confederation of many subtribes accepted the new rule, and these therefrom have been the Beni-Amer people.
[5][8]
Social structucture
The
Funj Sultanate, also known as
Funjistan,
Sultanate of Sennar (after its capital
Sennar) or
Blue Sultanate (due to the traditional Sudanese convention of referring to black people as blue)
[10] (
Arabic: السلطنة الزرقاء,
romanized:
al-Sulṭanah al-Zarqāʼ),
[11] was a
monarchy in what is now
Sudan, northwestern
Eritrea and western
Ethiopia. Founded in 1504 by the
Funj people, it quickly converted to
Islam, although this conversion was only nominal. Until a more orthodox form of Islam took hold in the 18th century, the state remained an "African empire with a Muslim
façade".
[12] It reached its peak in the late 17th century, but declined and eventually fell apart in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1821, the
last sultan, greatly reduced in power, surrendered to the
Ottoman Egyptian invasion without a fight.
[13]

How far did these Somalis raid into Sudan.
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