Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Tūnisī
Travels of an Arab Merchant in Soudan
Travels of an Arab Merchant in Soudan
Download instructions are supplied after checkout. Read on a compatible EPUB or comic-reading app.
Couldn't load pickup availability
“Everywhere I was received by the principal persons of each country, and I made a point of seeking the society of all men at all remarkable for instruction. I examined everything, great and small.”
RESTORED ENGLISH EPUB
A rare nineteenth-century account of Darfur and Wadai told from within the region's Arabic-speaking Muslim trading world. Sheikh Mohammed of Tunis records caravan travel, commerce, education, government, family life, medicine, plants, stories and customs observed during years of travel and residence.
This Nile Book Store edition includes:
the complete 1854 English abridgment; clean reflowable text; linked contents and notes; carefully restored metadata; and a new contemporary cover.
Edition note: The surviving English text is Bayle St. John's 1854 abridgment of Dr. Perron's French translation of the original Arabic narrative. The source contains no genuine interior illustrations, so no artificial illustration gallery has been added.
Historical context: This work contains period descriptions of ethnicity, enslavement, gender and religion that modern readers may find objectionable. It is presented unabridged within this historical English edition for research and reading.
Format: EPUB · English · Instant digital download
Author: Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Tūnisī · English edition: 1854
Share
