Author: Osbert Guy Stanhope CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Fung Kingdom of Sennar
Author: Osbert Guy Stanhope CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Kingdom of Alwa
Author: Mohi el-Din Abdalla ZarrougPublisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 0919813941
Category : Alwa
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Kingdoms of the Sudan
Author: R.S. O'FaheyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315451123
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book, first published in 1974, is a study of the two states which dominated the northern and western regions of Sudan from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century: the Funj kingdom of Sinnār and the Keira sultanate of Dār Fūr. Until now the history of these two states has been neglected in comparison with that of the western states of the Sudanic Belt. The authors spent years researching the documentation of the period and the present book is a concise survey of their findings, comprising history, literature, politics, economics, trade and religion.
The Near East
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern question (Balkan)
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The Encyclopaedia of Islām
Author: Area Handbook for the Republic of the Sudan
Author: The Shilluk People, Their Language and Folklore
Author: Diedrich WestermannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shilluk (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A History of the Arabs in the Sudan and Some Account of the People who Preceded Them and of the Tribes Inhabiting Dárfūr
Author: Harold Alfred MacMichaelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabs
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
City Walls
Author: James D. TracyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521652216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The essays presented in this volume, first published in 2000, describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilisation of manpower and resources needed to build them favoured some kinds of polities over others; and their massive strength, appropriately ornamented, created a visual language of authority. Previous collective volumes on the subject have dealt mainly with Europe, but the historians and art historians who collaborate here follow a comparative agenda. The millennial practice of wall building that branched out from the ancient Near East into India, Europe, and North Africa shows continuities and points of contact of which the makers of urban fortifications were scarcely aware; separate traditions in China, sub-Saharan Africa, and North America illustrate universal themes of defensive strategy and the symbolism of power, each time embedded in a distinctive local context.
Area Handbook for the Republic of the Sudan
Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description