Travels of an Arab merchant in Soudan (the Black Kingdoms of Central Africa)

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Travels of an Arab merchant in Soudan (the Black Kingdoms of Central Africa)

by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Tūnisī

EN·~7 hours

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Description

" ... abridgment of Dr. Perron's French version of the narrative, written in Arabic, by Sheikh Mohammed of Tunis"--Preface

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Language

en

Duration

~7 hours (458K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United Kingdom: Chapman and Hall, 1854.

Credits

Galo Flordelis (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2023-05-31

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Tūnisī

Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Tūnisī

d. 1857

A Tunisian-born traveler, scholar, and writer, he left one of the most vivid firsthand accounts of early nineteenth-century Darfur. His work opens a rare window onto everyday life, politics, and learning across North Africa and the Sudan.

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