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