TY - BOOK ID - 139145272 TI - The Sudan of the Three Niles : The Funj Chronicle 910-1288/1504-1871 PY - 1999 SN - 9789004492066 9789004112568 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Funj dynasty, KW - Sudan KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:139145272 AB - This work is an annotated translation of the Funj Chronicle, the only full-length Arabic account of the Nilotic Sudan from 910/1504-5 to 1288/1871, produced by a succession of nineteenth-century Sudanese writers. The earlier part is based on a king-list of the Funj dynasty of Sinnār. From the mid-twelfth/eighteenth century an increasingly detailed narrative describes the rule of Hamaj regents, the conquest by Muḥammad 'Alī Pasha's forces and the first half-century of Turco-Egyptian government. The translator's Introduction discusses the textual history, structure and authorship of the Chronicle, while four Appendixes provide supplementary materials. This is a major source for Sudanese history, to which non-readers of Arabic have previously had access only through the summary translation in Harold MacMichael's History of the Arabs in the Sudan (Cambridge, 1992). ER -