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I think this would be relevant to share today given what Ethiopia is doing in Sudan with the RSF In 1744, the Ethiopian king Iyasu attempted to invade Sennar with an army 100,000 strong, the Sultan of Sennar with his 50,000 troops defeated him, killing and capturing a large number of his forces. Even though the Ethiopians were defeated, in typical revisionist fashion, the king came back to the highlands singing songs of victory. Meanwhile, the Sudanese Sultan came back to Sennar and celebrated his victory by offering sadaqa to the poor people of his country to thank God for the outcome. The writer of the manuscript says that this event greatly increased Sennar’s fame throughout the Islamic world, to the point that people from the Hijaz, India, Egypt, and Morocco came to settle there. And after that, the Abyssinians never dared to launch another attack on Sennar again.