The Darfur Sultanate: A History

R. S. O'Fahey

April, 2008
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70038-2
$60.00

Contents:

1. Geography, Ecology, and Ethnography

2. Daju, Tunjur, and Keira

3. The Expansion of the Keira State

4. Nineteenth-century Darfur

5. Sultan and Fashir

6. Hierarchies and Elites

7. Land and Privilege

8. Sultan and Subject

9. Government and Community

10. Islam, State, and Society

11. Raiding and Trading

12. The Conquest of Darfur, 1873-4

13. Darfur 1874-1916

14. Darfur in the Sudan: Postscript

Related Subjects

• African Studies

About the Author

R.S. O'Fahey is professor of history at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, University of Bergen, Norway. He has been researching the history of Darfur since 1968, and in 1972 he founded the University of Bergen's internationally recognized research program on the Sudan.

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