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In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two
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A merchant’s account of his travels through an independent African state
Muhammad ibn 'Umar alTunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. AlTunisi was raised in Cairo and a graduate of alAzhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, alTunisi set off for the Sultanate of Darfur, where his father had decamped ten years earlier. He followed the Forty Days Road, was reunited with his father, and eventually took over the management of ...
Muhammad ibn 'Umar alTunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. AlTunisi was raised in Cairo and a graduate of alAzhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, alTunisi set off for the Sultanate of Darfur, where his father had decamped ten years earlier. He followed the Forty Days Road, was reunited with his father, and eventually took over the management of ...