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In Darfur
An Account of the Sultanate and Its People
Taschenbuch von Al-T&
Sprache: Englisch

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"An Arab merchant's account of his travels through the Sultanate of Darfur in the early nineteenth century."--
"An Arab merchant's account of his travels through the Sultanate of Darfur in the early nineteenth century."--
Über den Autor
Müammad al-T¿nis¿ (Author)
Müammad al-T¿nis¿ (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants who traded with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Raised in Cairo, al-T¿nis¿ spent ten years traveling through the Darfur Sultanate. On his return to Egypt, he played an important part in Müammad ¿Al¿'s modernization project, supervising the translation of veterinary and medical texts and editing the first printed editions of classical Arabic texts.
Kwame Anthony Appiah (Foreword by)
Kwame Anthony Appiah, who has been president of the PEN American Center, is the author of The Ethics of Identity, Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, The Honor Code, and the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism. Raised in Ghana and educated in England, he has taught philosophy on three continents and is currently Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. Professor Appiah writes the "Ethicist" column in the New York Times Magazine.
Humphrey Davies (Translator)
Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of some twenty-five works of modern Arabic literature, among them Alaa Al-Aswany's The Yacoubian Building, five novels by Elias Khoury, including Gate of the Sun, and A¿mad F¿ris al-Shidy¿q's Leg over Leg. He has also made a critical edition, translation, and lexicon of the Ottoman-period Brains Confounded by the Ode of Ab¿ Sh¿d¿f Expounded by Y¿suf al-Shirb¿n¿, as well as editions and translations of al-T¿nis¿'s In Darfur and al-Sanh¿r¿'s Risible Rhymes from the same era. In addition, he hascompiled with Madiha Doss an anthology in Arabic entitled Al-¿¿mmiyyah al-mi¿riyyah al-makt¿bah: mukht¿r¿t min 1400 il¿ 2009 (Egyptian Colloquial Writing: selections from 1400 to 2009) and co-authored, with Lesley Lababidi, A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo. He read Arabic at the University of Cambridge, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and previous to undertaking his first translation in 2003, worked for social development and research organizations in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Sudan. He is affiliated with the American University in Cairo.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Produktart: Reiseführer
Region: Afrika
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781479804443
ISBN-10: 1479804444
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Al-T&
Übersetzung: Davies, Humphrey
Hersteller: New York University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 207 x 138 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Al-T&
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,518 kg
Artikel-ID: 118238019
Über den Autor
Müammad al-T¿nis¿ (Author)
Müammad al-T¿nis¿ (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants who traded with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Raised in Cairo, al-T¿nis¿ spent ten years traveling through the Darfur Sultanate. On his return to Egypt, he played an important part in Müammad ¿Al¿'s modernization project, supervising the translation of veterinary and medical texts and editing the first printed editions of classical Arabic texts.
Kwame Anthony Appiah (Foreword by)
Kwame Anthony Appiah, who has been president of the PEN American Center, is the author of The Ethics of Identity, Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, The Honor Code, and the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism. Raised in Ghana and educated in England, he has taught philosophy on three continents and is currently Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. Professor Appiah writes the "Ethicist" column in the New York Times Magazine.
Humphrey Davies (Translator)
Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of some twenty-five works of modern Arabic literature, among them Alaa Al-Aswany's The Yacoubian Building, five novels by Elias Khoury, including Gate of the Sun, and A¿mad F¿ris al-Shidy¿q's Leg over Leg. He has also made a critical edition, translation, and lexicon of the Ottoman-period Brains Confounded by the Ode of Ab¿ Sh¿d¿f Expounded by Y¿suf al-Shirb¿n¿, as well as editions and translations of al-T¿nis¿'s In Darfur and al-Sanh¿r¿'s Risible Rhymes from the same era. In addition, he hascompiled with Madiha Doss an anthology in Arabic entitled Al-¿¿mmiyyah al-mi¿riyyah al-makt¿bah: mukht¿r¿t min 1400 il¿ 2009 (Egyptian Colloquial Writing: selections from 1400 to 2009) and co-authored, with Lesley Lababidi, A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo. He read Arabic at the University of Cambridge, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and previous to undertaking his first translation in 2003, worked for social development and research organizations in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Sudan. He is affiliated with the American University in Cairo.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Produktart: Reiseführer
Region: Afrika
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781479804443
ISBN-10: 1479804444
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Al-T&
Übersetzung: Davies, Humphrey
Hersteller: New York University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 207 x 138 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Al-T&
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,518 kg
Artikel-ID: 118238019
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