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This 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.
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This article discusses the works of Qadi Niẓam al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī (d. c. 1279–83), a prominent litterateur operating at the court of the Juwayni dynasty of administrators who served the Ilkhans. Writing in Arabic, Niẓam al-Dīn composed both poems and letters for his patrons, shedding new light on the intellectual life of the Ilkhanate as well as on otherwise poorly attested historical events such as the fall of Isfahan to the Mongols. Based on unpublished manuscripts, this study examines this neglected figure and his place in Ilkhanid intellectual and political life.
Contributors are: Giancarlo Casale, Annabel Teh Gallop, Rıfat Günalan, Patricia Herbert, Jana Igunma, Midori Kawashima, Abraham Sakili and Michael Talbot
Contributors are: Giancarlo Casale, Annabel Teh Gallop, Rıfat Günalan, Patricia Herbert, Jana Igunma, Midori Kawashima, Abraham Sakili and Michael Talbot