Mahdish Faith and Sudanic Tradition

Download or read book Mahdish Faith and Sudanic Tradition written by Lidwien Kapteijns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985. This monograph is from a series on African Studies and looks at the history of the Masallt Sultanate from 1870 to 1930. As literature on western Dar Fur is nearly non-existent and relevant travel accounts few, it is almost completely based on primary sources. The (Arabic) Mahdist Archives and (English) Condominium Archives kept at the Central Records Office, Khartoum, French and British Archives, and the Sudan Collection of the History Department in Bergen, Norway.