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Tabaqat of Wad Dayfallah
The Tabaqat of Wad Dayfallah is a biographical dictionary of the Muslim holy men, scholars and poets of the Funj Sultanate, compiled by Muhammad al-Nur ibn Dayfallah and completed in the early nineteenth century. Its more than 250 biographies are the chief source for the religious and social history of the Sudan between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and it is a classic of Sudanese Arabic literature.
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