All of the Tunjur oral tradition is attributed in an unusual manner to a single person called Shau Dorsid.

Corvée labor was organized for the newly-organized state, long-range trade began, and Islam was partially adopted as a religion.

[7] There is a stone mosque, the first Muslim building in Darfur, possibly built around the year 1200, at the city of Uri which was the first capital of the kingdom.

[8] The role of Islam in the region ruled over by the Tunjur kingdom, and earlier the Daju dynasty, remained insignificant until the late 16th century.

The kingdom exported slaves, gold, camels, rhinoceros horn, ivory, ostrich feathers, tamarind, gum arabic and natron.

[9] Unlike in the newly-islamized and briefly dynastically related Wadai Empire, it is unclear if the Tunjur kingdom was a Muslim state.

[6] Tunjur rule in Wadai ended when a local dynasty of Maba people revolted, expelled and replaced them.