The Sudan of the Three Niles : : The Funj Chronicle 910-1288/1504-1871 / / P.M. Holt.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization ; 26
• VerfasserIn: Holt, P.M.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Holt, P. M.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 1999.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English; Arabic
• Series: Islamic History and Civilization ; 26.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This work is an annotated translation of the Funj Chronicle, the only full-length Arabic account of the Nilotic Sudan from 910/1504-5 to 1288/1871, produced by a succession of nineteenth-century Sudanese writers. The earlier part is based on a king-list of the Funj dynasty of Sinnār. From the mid-twelfth/eighteenth century an increasingly detailed narrative describes the rule of Hamaj regents, the conquest by Muḥammad 'Alī Pasha's forces and the first half-century of Turco-Egyptian government. The translator's Introduction discusses the textual history, structure and authorship of the Chronicle, while four Appendixes provide supplementary materials. This is a major source for Sudanese history, to which non-readers of Arabic have previously had access only through the summary translation in Harold MacMichael's History of the Arabs in the Sudan (Cambridge, 1992).