In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People

by Muhammad al-Tunisi

A merchant's remarkable travel account of an African kingdom

Muḥammad al-Tūnisī (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tūnisī was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al-Tūnisī set off for the Sultanate of Darfur, where his father had decamped ten years earlier. He followed the Forty Days Road,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479804444
• ISBN13: 9781479804443
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"