6th Edition
A History of the Sudan From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day
Preface to the First Edition. Preface to the Sixth Edition. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Introduction: The Land and the People. PART ONE: Before the Turco-Egyptian Conquest. PART TWO: The Turco-Egyptian Period: 1820-81. PART THREE: The Mahdist State: 1881-98. PART FOUR: The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium: 1899-1955. PART FIVE: The Independent Sudan. Select Bibliography.
Biography
P.M. Holt was Professor of the History of the Near & Middle East in the University of London, whose many important works on Sudanese history included most notably The Mahdist State in the Sudan (1970)
M.W. Daly is the author of some fifteen books on the history of the Sudan, including most recently Darfur’s Sorrow: The forgotten history of a humanitarian disaster (2nd edition 2010).
