“Don’t worry about anything” – A snippet of communication between the Old Dongola elite

Abstract

Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile; exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed Ali; and illustrating the antiquities, arts, and history of the ancient kingdom of Meroe. London: Longman, etc., 1835. Kitāb al-ṬabaqātKitāb al-Ṭabaqāt fi khuṣūṣ al-awliyāʾ wa-l-ṣāliḥīn wa-l-ʿulamāʾ wa-al-šuʿarāʾ fī-l-Sūdān: taʾlīf Muḥammad al-Nūr b. Ḍayfallāh, edited by Faḍl Ḥasan Yūsuf.