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Land in Dar Fur: Charters and Related Documents from the Dar Fur Sultanate (Fontes Historiae Africanae. Series Arabica, 3)

By R. S. O'Fahey , M. I. Abu Salim , M. J. Tubiana , J. Tubiana

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
0521545633, 9780511563188, 0521246431, 0511563183, 9780521246439, 9780521545631
LCC
HD977 .L36 1983
Open Library ID
OL3484691M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1454309 bytes)
Pages
184\181
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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. 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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