A History of the Arabs in the Sudan
And Some Account of the People who Preceded them and of the Tribes Inhabiting Dárf?r

A comprehensive history of the indigenous people of Sudan based on interviews and local genealogies, first published in 1922.

H. A. MacMichael (Author)

9781108010252, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 March 2011

382 pages, 1 table
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.56 kg

H. A. MacMichael was a member of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan government between 1905 and 1933. This two-volume work, first published in 1922, is the culmination of almost twenty years' ethnological research conducted while MacMichael was stationed in various parts of Sudan. It provides detailed histories of the origins, movements and degrees of relation between indigenous groups in Sudan, based on oral histories gained from interviews with local people, and on Sudanese genealogical records known as 'nisbas'. These records provide a valuable insight into the construction and fluidity of ethnic identity at a local and regional level, and have been widely used as a basis for subsequent investigations concerning identity in Sudan. Volume 1 discusses pre-Islamic and contemporary indigenous groups. This book contains opinions on ethnicity which were acceptable at the time it was first published.

Introduction
Bibliography
Part I. The Inhabitants of the Northern Sudan before the Time of the Islamic Invasions: 1. The pre-Islamic Arabian element
2. The Nubians, the Nuba and the Libyan element
3. The Bega, the Blemyes and Nuba of Meroe
4. The non-Arab races of Dárf?r
Part II. The Progress of the Arab Tribes through Egypt: 5. The progress through Egypt in the middle ages of certain Arab tribes now represented in the Sudan
6. The general progress of the Arabs through Egypt and their invasions of Dongola
Part III. The Arab Tribes of the Sudan at the Present Day: 7. The Ga'aliín and Danágla group
8. The Guhayna group
9. The Guhayna group continued
10. The Guhayna group continued
11. The Kawáhla group
12. The Kenána and Deghaym
13. The Rikábía
14. The Hawáwír, Gellába Howára, Wáhía and Koróbát
15. The 'Abábda and Kerrárísh
16. The Southern Mahass
17. The Hamrán
18. (a) The Rasháída and Zebaydía
(b) The Hadáreb and Hud?r.

Subject Areas: African history [HBJH]