Title: The book of Khor Nubt
First published: 1998
Description: The book is a corpus of early Islamic inscriptions from Khor Nubt, a valley in the desert region SW of Port Soudan. Volume I contains 96 unpublished inscriptions in Kufic characters and other 16 ones presenved in the Museum of Khartoum. Each of them has been recorded with the Arabic text, its English translation and a palaeographical and linguistic comment. Volume II contains the photos of the tombstones.
Subjects: Islamic inscriptions
Places: Nubia, Sudan, Egypt
Time periods: 3rd-4th centuries of the Hejira/ 9th-10th A.D.