سلطنت زرقا (The Blue Sultanate) (عربی: السلطنة الزرقاء) جسے سلطنت سنار (Sultanate of Sennar) یا سلطنت فنج (Funj Sultanate) بھی کیا جاتا ہے سوڈان کے شمال میں ایک سلطنت تھی۔ فنج نام وہاں کے نسلی گروہ کے نام پر ہے۔
↑Neil McHugh (1994)۔ Holymen of the Blue Nile: The Making of an Arab-Islamic Community in the Nilotic Sudan, 1500–1850۔ Series in Islam and Society in Africa۔ Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press۔ ص 9۔ ISBN:978-0-8101-1069-4۔ 2018-12-25 کو اصل سے آرکائیو کیا گیا۔ اخذ شدہ بتاریخ 2013-04-25۔ The spread of Arabic flowed not only from the dispersion of Arabs but from the unification of the Nile by a government, the Funj sultanate, that utilized Arabic as an official means of communication, and from the use of Arabic as a trade language.
↑J. Spencer Trimingham (1996)۔ "Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, till the 19th century"۔ The Last Great Muslim Empires۔ History of the Muslim World, 3۔ Abbreviated and adapted by F. R. C. Bagley (2nd ایڈیشن)۔ Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers۔ ص 167۔ ISBN:978-1-55876-112-4۔ 2018-12-25 کو اصل سے آرکائیو کیا گیا۔ اخذ شدہ بتاریخ 2013-04-25۔ The date when the Funj rulers adopted اسلام is not known, but must have been fairly soon after the foundation of Sennār, because they then entered into relations with Muslim groups over a wide area.
↑Galbraith Welch (1949)۔ North African Prelude: The First Seven Thousand Years(snippet view)۔ New York: W. Morrow۔ ص 463۔ OCLC:413248۔ 2018-12-25 کو اصل سے آرکائیو کیا گیا۔ اخذ شدہ بتاریخ 2010-08-12۔ The government was semirepublican; when a king died the great council picked a successor from among the royal children. Then—presumably to keep the peace—they killed all the rest.
