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In Darfur - Muhammad al-Tunisi - Bog

- An Account of the Sultanate and Its People

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A merchant¿s remarkable travel account of an African kingdom Müammad al-T¿nis¿ (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-T¿nis¿ was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al-T¿nis¿ 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-T¿nis¿¿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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781479804443
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 430
  • Udgivet:
  • 1. september 2020
  • Størrelse:
  • 210x141x29 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 554 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 4. december 2024
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A merchant¿s remarkable travel account of an African kingdom
Müammad al-T¿nis¿ (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-T¿nis¿ was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al-T¿nis¿ 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-T¿nis¿¿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.

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