In Darfur : : An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One / / Muḥammad al-Tūnisī; ed. by Humphrey Davies.
A merchant’s account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tunisi was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Letter from the General Editor
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Map 1: The Author’s World: from Mali to Mecca
- Map 2: Darfur
- Note on the Text
- Notes to the Frontmatter
- Preamble
- Prolegomenon, in three chapters
- Chapter 1: The Reasons That Led to My Journey to the Land of the Blacks
- Chapter 2: The Journey from al-Fusṭāṭ to Darfur
- Chapter 3: A Brief Excerpt from the History of Sultan ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Called the Rightly Guided: His Early Days, His Rule, and His Death
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- About the Typefaces
- Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature
- About the Editor–Translator