Fur Islamic sultanate of western Sudan, independent until the Anglo-Egyptian conquest.
The Sultanate of Darfur was conquered by an Anglo-Egyptian force in 1916; Sultan Ali Dinar was killed in battle in November 1916, and Darfur was incorporated into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
A nineteenth-century eyewitness account of the Darfur sultanate and its people, in NYU's Library of Arabic Literature translation.
Foundational study of the institutions and society of the Darfur sultanate.
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