Qualla: Kalakla https://qualla.com/kalakla en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Kalakla https://qualla.com/kalakla Kalakla: Introduction https://qualla.com/kalakla/ The Khalwa at Kalakla has been open since 1885. A khalwa is a Qur'anic school, typically a simple structure where students memorize the text under a sheikh's guidance, and this one has been receiving students since the year before the Mahdist forces took Khartoum from the British. Since then, through the Turco-Egyptian period's end, the Mahdist state, the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, Sudanese independence in 1956, Nimeiry's regime, Sadiq al-Mahdi's government, Omar al-Bashir's thirty years, the 2019 revolution, and the war that began in April 2023, students have come and gone through its door. The building is part of the Sanqaat Khalwa complex associated with Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Zein, and its continued existence is one of those small permanencies that make Sudanese neighborhoods what they are.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/x/p/kalakla-wp/sdxp-kalakla-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kalakla: Two Sheikhs and a Marriage https://qualla.com/kalakla/ The history of Kalakla as a distinct community goes back about 450 years, to the late sixteenth century, when Sheikh Ali bin Muhammad bin Kanna arrived at the Al-Manjara area of what is now Khartoum. He came from Al-Azhar Al-Sharif in Cairo, the thousand-year-old center of Sunni ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/x/p/kalakla-wp/sdxp-kalakla-two-sheikhs-and-a-marriage.mp3 0:06 2 full Kalakla: During the Mahdist State https://qualla.com/kalakla/ When Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi declared himself the expected Islamic reformer in 1881 and established the Mahdist state, two scholars in the Kalakla area gained particular standing. Sheikh Abd al-Qadir Wad Umm Maryoum, based at Kalakla al-Qaala, was the elder, and the Mahdist autho...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/x/p/kalakla-wp/sdxp-kalakla-during-the-mahdist-state.mp3 0:06 3 full Kalakla: Geography of a Southern District https://qualla.com/kalakla/ Kalakla sits in southern Khartoum State, within the Jabal al-Awliya locality, at latitude 15.4678 and longitude 32.4856 degrees. It is bordered on the east by the lands of Mahas, on the northwest by Haraz Umm Qaddad, north of al-Azuzab. It ends on the east in Eid Hussein, extends...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/x/p/kalakla-wp/sdxp-kalakla-april-to-september-2023.mp3 0:06 5 full Kalakla: Landmarks That Held https://qualla.com/kalakla/ Despite everything, the district's landmarks are still listed in the present tense. The Central Reserve Forces (Abu Tira) Command. The Kalakla Turkish Hospital, a Turkish-funded medical facility that has been a point of reference in the neighborhood since its opening. The tombs o...

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