Description: Further DetailsTitle: In DarfurCondition: NewSubtitle: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume TwoISBN-10: 1479867845EAN: 9781479867844ISBN: 9781479867844Publisher: New York University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/08/2018Description: 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-Tunisi set off for the Sultanate of Darfur, where his father had decamped ten years earlier. He followed the Forty Days Road, was reunited with his father, and eventually took over the management of the considerable estates granted to his father by the sultan of Darfur. In Darfur is al-Tunisi’s remarkable account of his ten-year sojourn in this independent state. In Volume Two al-Tunisi describes the geography of the region, the customs of Darfur’s petty kings, court life and the clothing of its rulers, marriage customs, eunuchs, illnesses, food, hunting, animals, currencies, plants, magic, divination, and dances. In Darfur combines literature, history, ethnography, linguistics, and travel adventure, and most unusually for its time, includes fifty-two illustrations, all drawn by the author. In Darfur is a rare example of an Arab description of Africa on the eve of Western colonization and vividly evokes a world in which travel was untrammeled by bureaucracy, borders were fluid, and startling coincidences appear almost mundane.A bilingual Arabic-English edition.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 635gAuthor: Muḥammad al-TūnisīContributor: Humphrey Davies (Edited and translated by)Genre: HistoryBook Series: Library of Arabic LiteratureTopic: Travel & TransportRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: In Darfur
Title: In Darfur
Subtitle: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two
ISBN-10: 1479867845
EAN: 9781479867844
ISBN: 9781479867844
Release Date: 05/08/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Humphrey Davies (Edited and translated by)
Genre: History
Topic: Travel & Transport
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: In Darfur : an Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two
Publisher: New York University Press
Subject: Africa / General, Africa / East
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 1.3 in
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: MuḥAmmad Al-TūNisī
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Travel, History
Item Width: 6.2 in
Series: Library of Arabic Literature Ser.
Format: Hardcover
