Women of the Zar and Middle-Class sensibilities in Colonial Aden, 1923-1932, Lidwien Kapteijns and Jay Spaulding (7-38)
New Arabic Documents from Somalia, B.W. Andrzejewski and I.M. Lewis (39-56)
From Slaves to Benefactors: The Habashis of Mamluk Cairo, Carl F. Petry (57-66)
Ahmad Zayni Dahlan's al-Futuhat al-islamiyya: A Contemporary View of the Sudanese Mahdi, Heather J. Sharkey (67-75)
A Bill of Sale from the Heartland of Sinnar, Neil McHugh (77-84)
Three Traditional Prescriptions from the Nineteenth Century Sudan, 'Ali Salih Karrar (85-93)
Mahdist Oral Praise Poetry as a Historical Source: Qurashi Muhammad Hasan's Qasa`id min shu'ara` al-Mahdiyya, Heather J. Sharkey (95-110)
Creating History: A Case from the Sudan, G. Makris (111-148)
Rinderpest in the Sudan 1888-1890: The Mystery of the Missing Panzootic, John Rowe, with comments by Kjell Hødnebø (149-178)
Falkeiana III: The Kitab al-tarsil, an Anonymous Manual of Epistolatory and Notary style, John O. Hunwick (179-184)
Adamu Jakada's Intelligence Reports, 1899-1901, Philip A. Afeadie (185-224)
Text-centred Research: Fitna as a Case Study and a Way Forward for Guests in the House of African Historiography, Humphrey J. Fisher (225-260)
Neil McHugh, Holymen of the Blue Nile: The Making of an Arab-Islamic Community in the Nilotic Sudan, 1500-1850 (Heather J.Sharkey) (266-269)
Marina Tolmacheva (trans., ed.), The Pate Chronicle (Matthew A. Cenzer) (270-273)
Selena Axelrod Winsnes (trans., ed.), Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade (Ivor Wilks) (274-276)
Geoffrey Roper (ed.), World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts. Vol. II (R.S. O'Fahey) (277-278)
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