Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

Khartoum : Khartoum University Press, 1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hassan, Yusuf Fadl.

Description

338 p., [4] leaves of plates : maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Sudan library series ; 2

Uniform Title

Sudanese library series ; no. 2.

Subject

Sudan > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.).

LCCN

^^^86981321^

OCLC

• 17479220
• SCSB-11673617

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library