In Darfur : : An Account of the Sultanate and Its People / / Muḥammad al-Tūnisī.
A merchant’s remarkable travel account of an African kingdomMuḥammad al-Tūnisī (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tūnisī was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al-Tūnisī set off for the Sult...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature ;
70 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 52 black-and-white illustrations, 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Letter from the General Editor
- About this Paperback
- Contents
- Foreword
- Historical Introduction
- Introduction
- Map 1: The Author’s World: from Mali to Mecca
- Map 2: Darfur
- Note on the Text
- Notes to the Frontmatter
- In Darfur
- Preamble
- Prolegomenon, in three chapters
- The Book Proper, in three chapters
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- List of Images
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- About the Translator
- The Library of Arabic Literature