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Additional authors

1. Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman)
2. O'Fahey, R. S. (Rex S.)

Description

1. 2 volumes : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

1. 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 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.

Series statement

1. Library of Arabic literature

Uniform title

1. Library of Arabic literature.

Alternative title

1. ‏تشحيذ الأذهان بسيرة بلاد العرب والسودان
2. Tashḥīdh al-adhhān bi-sīrat bilād al-ʻArab wa-al-Sūdān

Subject

1. 1700-1899
2. Enslaved persons > Sudan > Darfur > Social conditions
3. Travel
4. Darfur (Sudan) > History > 18th century
5. Darfur (Sudan) > History > 19th century
6. Darfur (Sudan) > Description and travel
7. Darfur (Sudan) > Social life and customs > History
8. Sudan > Darfur

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Volume One -- Volume Two.

Call number

1. Sc E 19-101

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available in electronic format.

Language (note)

1. In parallel English and Arabic.

Author

1. Tūnisī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, author.

Title

1. In Darfur : an account of the sultanate and its people = Tashḥīdh al-adhhān bi-sīrat bilād al-ʻArab wa-al-Sūdān / Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Tūnisī ; edited and translated by Humphrey Davies ; foreword by R. S. O'Fahey.

Alternate script for title

1. In Darfur : an account of the sultanate and its people = تشحيذ الأذهان بسيرة بلاد العرب والسودان / Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Tūnisī ; edited and translated by Humphrey Davies ; foreword by R. S. O'Fahey.

Publisher

1. New York : New York University Press, [2018]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Library of Arabic literature
2. Library of Arabic literature.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional formats

1. Also available in electronic format.

Language

1. In parallel English and Arabic.

Local note

1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Chronological term

1. 1700-1899

Added author

1. Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman), translator, editor.
2. Tūnisī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar. Tashḥīdh al-adhhān bi-sīrat bilād al-ʻArab wa-al-Sūdān.
3. Tūnisī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar. Tashḥīdh al-adhhān bi-sīrat bilād al-ʻArab wa-al-Sūdān. English.
4. O'Fahey, R. S. (Rex S.), writer of foreword.

Added title page title

1. Tashḥīdh al-adhhān bi-sīrat bilād al-ʻArab wa-al-Sūdān

Alternate script for added title page title

1. تشحيذ الأذهان بسيرة بلاد العرب والسودان

LCCN

1. 2017045322

Other standard identifier

1. 40028178285

ISBN

1. 9781479876389 (v. 1)
2. 1479876380 (v. 1)
3. 9781479867844 (v. 2)
4. 1479867845 (v. 2)

Research call number

1. Sc E 19-101