Studies in the History of the Near East

First Published in 1973. This volume brings together a number of studies concerned with the Near East and its history from the sixteenth century. They fall into three groups. The first is concerned with English Arabists of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and particularly with Edward Pococke. The papers in the second group deal with the history of the Nilotic Sudan, and especially attempt to exploit the sparse source-materials available on the Funj Sultanate and to throw some light on developments between the sixteenth and the nineteenth century. Another dark age in modern Near Eastern history is the subject of the third group of papers-the period of Egyptian history from the Ottoman conquest in 1517 to the French occupation in 1798.

Introduction I: Early Students of Arab History in England 1. An Oxford Arabist: Edward Pococke (1604-91) 2. The Study of Arabic Historians in Seventeenth-Century England 3. The Treatment of Arab History by Prideaux, Ockley and S~ ~ II: Studies in Sudanese History 4. The Coming of the Funj 5. The Sons of Jabir and their Kin: a Clan of Sudanese Religious Notables 6. Four Funj Land-Charters 7. Holy Families and Islam in the Sudan 8. Modernization and Reaction in the Nineteenth-Century Sudan Ill: Studies in Egyptian History 9. Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798): an Account of Arabic Historical Sources 10. AI-Jabarti's Introduction to the History of Ottoman Egypt 11. The Beylicate in Ottoman Egypt during the Seventeenth Century 12. The Exalted Lineage of Ridywan Bey: Some Observations on a Seventeenth-Century Mamluk Genealogy 13. The Career of Kucuk Muhammad (1676-94)

P.M. Holt Professor in Arab History in the University of London