The Darfur Sultanate
Subtitle: a history
By: R.S. O'Fahey.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780231700382
Subjects: Darfur (Sudan) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: The first Keira Sultanate; title: Geography, ecology and ethnography; title: States and state formation : Daju, Tunjur and Keira; title: Down from the mountains : the expansion of the Keira state; title: Stability and stagnation : nineteenth-century Darfur; title: State and society; title: Sultan and Fashir; title: Hierarchies and elites; title: Land and privilege; title: Sultan and subject; title: Government and community; title: Islam, state and society; title: Raiding and trading; title: The end of independence; title: The conquest of Darfur, 1873-74; title: Darfur 1874-1916; title: Darfur in the Sudan : postscript.