Name: In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and its People: 70 (Library of Arabic Literature) (en Inglés)
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Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah
ISBN: 9781479804443

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In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and its People: 70 (Library of Arabic Literature) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Muḥammad Al-Tūnisī

Prefacio de

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Traducido por

Humphrey Davies

Editorial

New York University Press

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

432

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.8 x 14.0 x 3.3 cm

Peso

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9781479804443

Categorías

Egipto
África oriental
Historia de oriente próximo
Historia de áfrica
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In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and its People: 70 (Library of Arabic Literature) (en Inglés)

Muḥammad Al-Tūnisī (Autor) · Kwame Anthony Appiah (Prefacio de) · Humphrey Davies (Traducido por) · New York University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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, 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-Tūnisī's remarkable account of his ten-year sojourn in this independent state, featuring descriptions of 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 an African society 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. An English-only edition.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Kwame Anthony Appiah es un filósofo anglo-ghanés, especializado en estudios culturales y literarios sobre temas africanos y afroamericanos. Actualmente es profesor en la Universidad de Princeton.

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