
The Land of the Three Niles
The Funj Chronicle 910-1288 /1504-1871
P. M. Holt(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 24. March 1999
Book
Hardback
210 pages
978-90-04-11256-8 (ISBN)
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Description
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 Sinnar. From the mid-twelfth/eighteenth century an increasingly detailed narrative describes the rule of Hamaj regents, the conquest by Muh?ammad 'Ali 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).
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).
Reviews / Votes
'In sum, the Funji Chronicle offers rich rewards to anyone willing to invest the considerable effort necessary to understand it, and this very welcome edition should help it gain the attention it deserves.'Jay Spaulding, Journal of African History, 2000.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Annotated edition
Product notice
Cloth
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1039 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-11256-8 (9789004112568)
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Person
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).