In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two

by Muhammad al-Tunisi

A 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479867845
• ISBN13: 9781479867844
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"