Land in Dar Fur: Charters and Related Documents from the Dar Fur Sultanate (Fontes Historiae Africanae. Series Arabica)

R. S. O'Fahey

ISBN 10: 0521545633 / ISBN 13: 9780521545631

Published by Cambridge University Press 2008-08-21, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Land in Dar Fur: Charters and Related Documents from the Dar Fur Sultanate (Fontes Historiae Africanae. Series Arabica)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2008-08-21
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521545633
• ISBN 13: 9780521545631
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book is the first study of the administration of this Sudanese sultanate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be drawn from recently-discovered Arabic land charters. Translations of forty-seven selected charters and related documents are presented to illustrate the complexity of land as an issue in the sultanate. The authors review the principles by which privileged status, rights in people and in landed estates were granted; and examine the nature of the administration in Dar Fur. The volume will be of interest to historians of Africa and the Middle East and to those concerned with land and society in a comparative framework.

Book Description

This book is the first study of the administration of this Sudanese sultanate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be drawn from recently-discovered Arabic land charters. The volume will be of interest to historians of Africa and the Middle East and to those concerned with land and society in a comparative framework.