Sudan in Africa : studies presented to the first international conference sponsored by the Sudan Research Unit, 7-12 February, 1968 / edited with an introduction by Yūsuf Faḍl Hasan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hassan, Yusuf Fadl.

Series:

Sudanese library series ; no. 2.

Sudanese library series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sudan--Congresses.

Sudan.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

338 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Khartoum : Khartoum University Press, 1985.

Contents:

The significance of the Sudan in linguistic research, past, present and future / R. C Stevenson (15 p.).

The place of the Napatan-Meroitic culture in the history of the Sudan and Africa / B. G Haycock (16 p.).

The culture of medieval Nubia and its impact on Africa / P. L Shinnie (9 p.).

East Africa and the Nile Valley in early times / Merrick Posnansky (11 p.).

Sudanese-Ethiopian relations before the nineteenth century / Merid Wolde Aregay (11 p.).

External Islamic influences and the progress of Islamization in the Eastern Sudan between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries / Yusuf Faḍl Ḥasan (14 p.).

Religion and trade in the Kayra Sultanate of Dār Fūr / R. S O'Fahey (11 p.).

The historical background to "the Sudan Road" / 'Umar A Al-Naquar (11 p.).

Mahdism, Messianism and Marxism in the African setting / Thomas Hodgkin (19 p.).

Ḥayātū b. Sa'īd: A revolutionary mahdist in the Western Sudan / Muḥammad A Al-Ḥājj (14 p.).

The expansionist movement of Khedive Ismā'īl to the lakes / Mekki Shibeika (14 p.).

Sudanese factors in the history of the Congo and Central West Africa in tne nineteenth century / R. O Collins (12 p.).

Sudanese factors in the history of Ethiopia in the nineteenth century / G. N Sanderson (17 p.).

Classification by genealogy: a problem of the Baqqāra belt / Ian Cunnison (11 p.).

Social assimilation and changing identity in the Southern Funj / Wendy R James (15 p.).

Spirit possession in North-East Africa / I. M Lewis (16 p.).

Arabism, Africanism and self-identification in the Sudan / Muddathir 'abd Al-Raḥim (12 p.).

The multiple marginality of the Sudan / Alī A Mazrui (16 p.).

Native administration in the Sudan and its significance to Africa / Ja'far M. A Bakheit (23 p.).

Islamic and customary law in the Sudan / Natale O Akolawin (23 p.).

Sudan profile: a comparative cultural study / Abdul Aziz Kamil (22 p.).

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

OCLC:

17479220