A history of the sultunates of the western part of modern Sudan and their legacy of great stone monuments, abandoned cities, myths and legends. Archaeological investigations ...

This paper analyzes the Mahdist Revolution in the Sudan from 1881 to 1885. Mohammed Ahmed bin Abdallah proclaimed himself the Mahdi (the expected one or the deliverer in the ...

Chronicles the history of Egyptian politics, economics, social and cultural developments from ancient times to the present.

A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists ...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Published in 1910, this classic of imperialist writing by the former Consul General explains and justifies British involvement in Egypt.

At the end of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was in sharp decline. However, out of the ashes of this empire ascended an Egyptian royal family that would go on to ...