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Land in Dar Fur: Charters and Related Documents from the Dar Fur Sultanate (Fontes Historiae Africanae. Series Arabica, 3) - Hardcover
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Land in Dar Fur: Charters and Related Documents from the Dar Fur Sultanate
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LAND IN DAR FUR
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15+165 pages, plates, maps, diagrams : 47 charters & related documents from the Sultanate translated with an Introduction, the whole forming the first study of the administration of the Sultanate in the C18th and C19th; hardback FINE FINE dw isbn 0521246431 east africa sudan darfur darfur sultanate sudanese history darfur administration. Seller Inventory # 21530
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Land in Dar Fur: Charters and Related Documents from the Dar Fur Sultanate
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st printing, thus; dj in mylar; owner's plate; black c w/silver gilt spine titles; 165 pages w/occasional, lite pencil checkmark very lite touches sof foxing. This is the 1st study of the administration of the Sudanese sultanate in the 18th & 19th centuries, drawn from Arabic land charters. Seller Inventory # 114388