The Sudan of the Three Niles: The Funj Chronicle 910-1288/1504-1871

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-11256-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1039 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

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 SinnÄr. From the mid-twelfth/eighteenth century an increasingly detailed narrative describes the rule of Hamaj regents, the conquest by MuhÌ£ammad 'AlÄ« 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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holt, P. M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

P.M. Holt, M.A., D.Litt, (Oxford), is the Emeritus Professor of the History of the Near and Middle East in the University of London at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His publications include The Madhist State in the Sudan (Oxford U.P., 1985, 1970), The Age of the Crusades (Longman, 1986), Early Mamluk Diplomacy (Brill, 1995).