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Title:Land and privilege in Dar Fur
Author:O'Fahey, R.S.ISNI
Book title:The Central Bilad al-Sudan: tradition and adaptation
Year:1977
Pages:262-282
Language:English
Geographic term:Sudan
Subjects:Darfur polity
Islamic law
land tenure
Abstract:To date a corpus of some 400 sultanic or administrative documents concerning land-charters and related administrative and legal questions, has been collected from Dar Fur. Based on these documents, the author presents a preliminary account of the granting of land and privileges by the Dar Fur sultans to members of the ruling elite, broadly defined. Notes, sum. in French.