Smoking tools are one of the important types spread in African continent,and it was a subject of great controversy,and very popular during the Ottoman Empire era,where it was widespread and available in many cafes, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.The study dealt with smoking pipes in Sudan in the area of Sennar.The aims of this study are to find out the types of smoking pipes and their prevalence rate, while comparing the types that were found in the Old Dongola region, as well as discussing the debate about the prohibition of smoking in that period in the Islamic countries. the results confirmed that the smoking at that time was related to social classes,as there was avariation in the industrial types,shapes,sizes and decoration.It became clear that there were imported Ottoman smoking pipes at the area of the study dating back to about the eighteenth century,and other tayps are local made of similar Nile clay. for species spread in Old Dongola.The study recommended that studying the smoker's community needs Interdisciplinary approach to know more about the psychological and social aspects that prevailed in that period,in addition to knowledge of the development and production of smoking tools.In Sudan and other Islamic countries.

Toward the methodology of studying the pipes in the area of Sennar - Sudan