Description: Further DetailsTitle: In DarfurCondition: NewSubtitle: An Account of the Sultanate and Its PeopleAuthor: Muḥammad al-TūnisīTranslator: Humphrey DaviesContributor: R.S. O'Fahey (Introduction by), Kwame Anthony Appiah (Foreword by), Humphrey Davies (Translated by)Format: PaperbackISBN-10: 1479804444EAN: 9781479804443ISBN: 9781479804443Publisher: New York University PressGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Travel & TransportRelease Date: 09/01/2020Description: 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 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-Tūnisī’s remarkable account of his ten-year sojourn in this independent state, featuring descriptions of 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 an African society 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.An English-only edition.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmBook Series: Library of Arabic LiteratureRelease Year: 2020 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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Publication Name: In Darfur
Title: In Darfur
Subtitle: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People
Translator: Humphrey Davies
Contributor: Humphrey Davies (Translated by)
ISBN-10: 1479804444
EAN: 9781479804443
ISBN: 9781479804443
Release Date: 09/01/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
Book Title: In Darfur : an Account of the Sultanate and Its People
Number of Pages: 430 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 1.3 in
Topic: Middle Eastern, Africa / General, Anthropology / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Social Science, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 18.3 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: MuḥAmmad Al-TūNisī
Book Series: Library of Arabic Literature Ser.
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
