Musa
Fur · mortal · Fur traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Musa is the brother who carries the founder-ancestor's line beyond Darfur. In the charter legend the sons of Ahmad al-Maqur divide the inheritance: Kunjar remains and succeeds his father in Darfur, while Musa travels west and masters Wadai, in some tellings with the help of the Mahamid Arabs. His figure serves to knit the neighbouring Wadai sultanate into the same origin myth, a device by which two dynasties claim a common ancestral stranger. He carries no independent cult and only slight narrative of his own; the traditions vary over the geography of his conquest and over his place among al-Maqur's children.
Parentage
- paternal: Ahmad al-Maqur
Domains
- ancestry lineage
Powers
- carries the line into Wadai
Relations
- sibling: Ahmad KunjarR. S. O'Fahey, The Darfur Sultanate: A History (London: Hurst, 2008) (secondary)
- sibling: DaaliR. S. O'Fahey, The Darfur Sultanate: A History (London: Hurst, 2008) (secondary)
- sibling: Shau DorshidR. S. O'Fahey, The Darfur Sultanate: A History (London: Hurst, 2008) (secondary)
Sources
- Musa, a son of Ahmad al-Maqur and brother of Kunjar, is said in tradition to have gone west and subjugated Wadai, so linking the Darfur and Wadai dynastic charters.: R. S. O'Fahey, The Darfur Sultanate: A History (London: Hurst, 2008) (secondary)