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024 7 _a10.18574/nyu/9781479814220.001.0001
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781479814220
035 _a(DE-B1597)547879
035 _a(OCoLC)1053803475
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
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050 4 _aDT159.6.D27
_bT8613 2018
072 7 _aTRV002000
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082 0 4 _a962.7/023
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aal-Tūnisī, Muḥammad
_eautore
245 1 0 _aIn Darfur :
_bAn Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two /
_cMuḥammad al-Tūnisī; ed. by Humphrey Davies.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c2018
300 _a1 online resource :
_b53 black and white illustrations
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
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490 0 _aLibrary of Arabic Literature ;
_v15
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tLetter from the General Editor --
_tTable of Contents --
_tMap 1: The Author’s World: from Mali to Mecca --
_tMap 2: Darfur --
_tThe Book Proper, in three chapters --
_tChapter 1: A Description of Darfur and Its People, of Their Customs and the Customs of Their Kings, and of the Names of the Positions and Ranks Held by the Latter, in five sections --
_tChapter 2, in two sections --
_tChapter 3, in two sections --
_tA Chapter on the Plants That Grow in Darfur; on Magic, the Making of Amulets, and Geomancy; and on Other Matters --
_tColophon --
_tNotes --
_tGlossary --
_tBibliography --
_tList of Images --
_tIndex --
_tAbout the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute --
_tAbout the Typefaces --
_tTitles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature --
_tAbout the Editor–Translator
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
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520 _aA 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 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. 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650 7 _aTravel / Africa / General.
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700 1 _aDavies, Humphrey
_ecuratore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479814220.001.0001
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479814220
856 4 2 _3Cover
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