Muhammad Tayrab

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Muhammad Tayrab (r.  c. 1753 – c. 1785) was a sultan of Darfur. During his reign, Tayrab pivoted the sultanate to the east and conquered Kordofan, reaching the Nile and sending Darfur into its apogee. The son of Sultan Ahmad Bukr and an elite Zaghawa, he appointed some Zaghawa relatives to office, reducing his reliance on the Fur. Tayrab was faced with rebellions by the Birged and the Tunjur (both of whom he defeated), as well as by the Rizayqat (with whom he reached a stalemate). Around 1785, after the Funj had withdrawn, the elderly Tayrab invaded and conquered Kordofan. Afterwards, aware that he was dying, Tayrab tried to secure the throne for his son Ishaq; this failed to happen: after Tayrab's death, Ishaq was defeated and killed in a civil war, and 'Abu al-Rahman usurped the throne for himself. In his 2008 monograph, historian Rex O'Fahey described him as "perhaps the greatest of the Keira [dynasty] sultans".

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