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CHRISTIANS AMONG MUSLIMS: THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY IN THE NORTHERN SUDAN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2002

HEATHER J. SHARKEY
HEATHER J. SHARKEY
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Trinity College, Hartford
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Abstract

Church Missionary Society missionaries arrived in the northern Sudan in 1899 with the goal of converting Muslims. Restricted by the Anglo-Egyptian government and by local opposition to their evangelism, they gained only one Muslim convert during sixty years of work. The missionaries nevertheless provided medical and education services in urban centers and in the Nuba Mountains, and pioneered girls' schools. Yet few of their Sudanese graduates achieved functional Arabic literacy, since missionaries taught ‘romanized Arabic', a form of written colloquial Arabic, in Latin print, that lacked practical applications. Thus the history of the CMS in the northern Sudan yields insights into issues of education, power and religious identity within a colonial context.

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missions Sudan Islam education gender
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The Journal of African History , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 51 - 75
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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The author wishes to thank the two anonymous reviewers of this article for their valuable suggestions during revision; Professor Mohamed Mahmoud of Tufts University for advice in translating Kathira Abdullahi's letters; Jane Hogan of the Sudan Archive, Durham University; and the staff of the CMS archives at Birmingham University.

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