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dc.contributor.authorPeacock, A.C.S.
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-07T16:31:37Z
dc.date.available2022-04-07T16:31:37Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-31
dc.identifier274172335
dc.identifier0fc4d3d2-68f6-49ed-8cb8-65dc73f68edc
dc.identifier000773510200001
dc.identifier85131601381
dc.identifier.citationPeacock , A C S 2022 , ' An embassy from the Sultan of Darfur to the Sublime Porte in 1791 ' , Islamic Africa , vol. 12 , no. 1 , pp. 55-91 . https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01201005en
dc.identifier.issn0803-0685
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/25159
dc.description.abstractThis article presents documents relating to the embassy sent by Sultan ʿAbd al-Raḥmān of Darfur to the Ottoman Sultan Selim III in 1791. These include an original Arabic letter which is an unusually early surviving example of sultanic correspondence from the Sahel. The documents permit a new interpretation of the purposes of the embassy, as well as an examination of chancery practice in Darfur, and offer an insight into Darfuri views of the outside world. To aid the analysis, the article compares this letter with a second surviving letter from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān addressed to Napoleon Bonaparte around 1800, of which the Arabic text has not previously been published.
dc.format.extent37
dc.format.extent108744560
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofIslamic Africaen
dc.subjectSudanen
dc.subjectDarfuren
dc.subjectSahelen
dc.subjectOttoman Empireen
dc.subjectDiplomaticsen
dc.subjectCorrespondenceen
dc.subjectArabicen
dc.subjectBP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etcen
dc.subjectDT Africaen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccBPen
dc.subject.lccDTen
dc.titleAn embassy from the Sultan of Darfur to the Sublime Porte in 1791en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Late Antique Studiesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studiesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Historyen
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/21540993-01201005
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2022-03-03


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