TY - BOOK ID - 93892957 TI - Land in Dār Fūr : charters and related documents from the Dār Fūr sultanate PY - 1983 VL - 3 SN - 0521246431 0521545633 0511563183 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - History of Africa KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - Darfur KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Land tenure KW - Darfur (Sudan) KW - Politics and government KW - Politics and government. KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - Dār Fūr (Sudan) KW - دارفور KW - دارفور (السودان) KW - Darfour (Sudan) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:93892957 AB - This book is the first study of the administration of this Sudanese sultanate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be drawn from recently-discovered Arabic land charters. Translations of forty-seven selected charters and related documents are presented to illustrate the complexity of land as an issue in the sultanate. The authors review the principles by which privileged status, rights in people and in landed estates were granted; and examine the nature of the administration in Dar Fur. The volume will be of interest to historians of Africa and the Middle East and to those concerned with land and society in a comparative framework. ER -