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Muhammad Abu Likaylik
Muhammad Abu Likaylik was a Hamaj military leader in the Funj Sultanate of Sennar. In the late 1740s he conquered Kordofan from the Musabba'at, and in 1762 he deposed Sultan Badi IV, becoming regent. He founded the Hamaj regency, under which he and his successors governed in the name of puppet sultans until the Egyptian conquest of 1821.
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