An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One
by
Muhammad al-Tunisi, Humphrey Davies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A merchant’s account of his travels through an independent African state
Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tunisi was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al-Tunisi set...