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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE LANDS OF MY TOIL: PROF. M. M. NINAN After the installation of king Say al-Din Abdullah in 1312 and the conversion to islam of the Nubians in 1317 and after, the christian symbols of authority disappeared. Inscription declaring the conversion of the Dongola Cathedral into a mosque on the 29 th May 1217 http://www.hubert-herald.nl/SudanI.htm Dongola Cathedral now a mosque The 13th century marks slow decline of the kingdom of Nubia. Fights weakened the kingdom; slow islamization of the country followed, royal rule and Christian faith fell and subsequently culture and arts deteriorated. In the fourteenth century the last Christian king of Dongola was defeated by a Moslem force and sent as a captive to Cairo. Arab settlers poured into the Sudan and rapidly overran the country as far as 66
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE LANDS OF MY TOIL: PROF. M. M. NINAN Darfur and Abyssinia, and the Kingdom of Nubia came to an end. The Church in Nubia finally yielded to Islamic conversion in the 14th century and the massive Cathedral in Dongola was converted into a mosque in 1317. While the Nubian church dissolved, with only a few architectural remnants to recall its former glory, the Ethiopian Church not only persisted but acquired great significance outside the Horn of Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. Based on Isichei, A history of Christianity in Africa, p 46 One can easily see that soon after the advent of Islam in seventh century Christianity began to weaken everywhere in North African where Christianity existed except in Aksum and Ethiopia where they remained strong. In AD 1172 the Fatimid rulers in Egypt (who upheld the Baqt agreement) were overthrown by Saladin. Then in 1260 another revolution in Egypt brought the Mamelukes to power. The Mamelukes then waged a series of wars against the Nubians. Towns were burnt and confusion spread. Gradually the weakened kingdom fell into chaos and under the control of the Mamelukes. 67
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