In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One Contributor(s): Al-Tūnisī, Muḥammad (Author), Davies, Humphrey (Editor), Davies, Humphrey (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1479876380 ISBN-13: 9781479876389 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Travel | Africa - General - History | Africa - East - History | Middle East - Egypt (see Also Ancient - Egypt) |
Dewey: 962.702 |
LCCN: 2017045322 |
Series: Library of Arabic Literature |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.3" W x 9" (1.30 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - Middle East |
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Publisher Description: A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state |
Contributor Bio(s): Al-Tunisi, Muhammad: - Muhammad al-Tunisi (1790-1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants who traded with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Raised in Cairo, al-Tunisi spent ten years traveling through the Darfur Sultanate. On his return to Egypt, he played an important part in Muhammad Ali's modernization project, supervising the translation of veterinary and medical texts and editing the first printed editions of classical Arabic texts.Davies, Humphrey: - Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of some twenty works of modern Arabic literature, among them Alaa Al-Aswany's The Yacoubian Building, four novels by Elias Khoury, including Gate of the Sun, and Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq's Leg over Leg. He has also made a critical edition, ranslation, and lexicon of the Ottoman-period Hazz al-quhuf bi-sharh qasid Abi Shaduf (Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded) by Yusuf al-Shirbini and compiled with a colleague an anthology entitled Al-'ammiyyah al-misriyyah al-maktubah: mukhtarat min 1400 ila 2009 (Egyptian Colloquial Writing: selections from 1400 to 2009). He read Arabic at the University of Cambridge, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and previous to undertaking his first translation in 2003, worked for social development and research organizations in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Sudan. He is affiliated with the American University in Cairo, where he lives.O'Fahey, R. S.: - R. S. O'Fahey is Professor Emeritus of History in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, University of Bergen, Norway. |