Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface and acknowledgements

List and concordance of documents

Transliteration and abbreviations

Chapter 1 The Dār Fūr Sultanate

Introduction

The administration of northern and central Dar Fur

Taxation and revenue

The law and its administration

Chapter 2 Estate and privilege

The growth of the estate system

Immunity

The charitable estate

The procedure

Chapter 3 Literacy and Chancery

Official literacy

An official chancery?

Chapter 4 A Diplomatic Commentary

Physical description and language

The structure of the charters

(a) seal

(b) invocatio

(c) intitulatio

(d) inscriptio

(e) expositio and dispositio

(f) final injunctions

Chapter 5 Translations and Commentary

I The faqīh 'Abdallāh's charter

II to VI The Jawāmi'a fuqarā' of Jadīd al-Sayl

VII to XXIII The Tunjur fuqarā' of Khirībān

XXIV and XXV The Masāmīr Arabs

XXVI to XXXVII The land and followers of Nūr al-Dīn b. Yahyā

XXXVIII to XLI The Princesses Fātima Umm Dirays and Zahra

XLII to XLVII The merchants Muhammad Kannūna and 'Alī Bey Ibrāhīm al-Tirayfi

Sources and bibliography

Notes

Indices

(a) Titles and honorifics

(b) Administrative and legal terms

(c) Botanical and topographical terms

(d) Personal and place-names