Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004492066
,
9789004112568
Series Statement:
Islamic History and Civilization 26
Content:
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)
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Translation based on four versions of Arabic text
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Sudan of the Three Niles : The Funj Chronicle 910-1288/1504-1871 Leiden : BRILL, 1999 ISBN 9789004112568
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004492066
