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In Darfur - An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One (Hardcover)
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In Darfur - An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One (Hardcover)
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
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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 One, al-Tunisi relates the history of
his much-traveled family, his journey from Egypt to Darfur, and the
reign of the noted sultan 'Abd al-Rahman al-Rashid. 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.
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