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Wadāī

(3,177 words)

Author(s): Spaulding, J. L. | H. Bell
(plusieurs orthographes pour ce nom, non arabe, notamment chez al-Tūnisī, celle donnée cidessus ainsi que Waddāī et al-Wāday), habituellement Ouadai en français, Wadai en anglais, région de plateau qui s’étend à l’Ouest de la province soudanaise du Dār Fūr [ q.v.] méridional, aujourd’hui faisant partie principalement de la République du Tchad [voir čad, dans Suppl.] mais avec sa bordure orientale dans la République du Soudan. 1. Histoire. Le Wadāi fut l’un des divers royaumes africains musulmans qui apparurent à l’aube des temps modernes sur les plateaux relati…

Wadāī

(2,892 words)

Author(s): Spaulding,J.L. | H. Bell
(various renderings of this non-Arabic name, including, in al-Tūnisī, the above one and Waddāī and al-Wāday), conventionally Wadai in English, Ouadai in French, an upland region lying to the west of the Sudanese province of southern Dār Fūr [ q.v.], now falling mainly within the Republic of Chad [see čad , in Suppl.] but with its eastern fringes in the Sudan Republic. 1. History. Wadai was one of several Islamic African kingdoms to arise at the dawn of the modern era in the comparatively fertile highlands west of the Nile valley and east of Lake Chad. This z…