Banu Kanz
The Banu Kanz were a Muslim dynasty of Arab-Beja descent on the Egyptian-Nubian frontier. In 1317 a Kanz al-Dawla seized the throne of Makuria; for decades the dynasty dominated lands between Aydhab, Suakin and the Nile.
The Banu Kanz raided Aswan in 1366 and 1370, provoking Mamluk retaliation. From 1365 the sultans sent Hawwara Berbers against them, and by the early fifteenth century the Hawwara had displaced the dynasty. Its descendants became the Kunuz of Upper Egypt and northern Nubia.
Characters
- ʿAlam al-Din ibn Siraj al-Din Umar
- Rukn al-Din al-Husayn
- Sayf al-Din Abu Abdallah Muhammad
- Shuja al-Din Nasr
- Umm al-Khayr bint Rukn al-Din al-Husayn