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British occupation, 1882-1936
Cairo Imprint

Ibrahim Fawzi Pasha ( إبراهيم فوزي باشا; ca 1853 – after 1901).

[Al-Sudan bayna yaday Gordon wa-Kitchener / Sudan in the Hands of Gordon and Kitchener]

Cairo: Published by the author in cooperation with Al-Mu’ayyad newspaper 1319 [1903].

2 parts bound in one book. Large 8°. 8 pp. with three black and white portraits, 403 pp., 8 pp. index. 364 pp., 6 p. index, [2 pp.] blank, contemporary black cloth binding with black goat spine, gold lettering on the spine, contemporary blue speckled endpapers (binding with small scuffs, internally clean with sporadic tiny tears in margins).

Al-Sudan bayna yaday Gordon wa-Kitchener is a seminal, two-volume historical memoir and primary source document detailing the turbulent transition of Sudan from Egyptian rule to the Mahdist State, and finally to the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. Written from the unique perspective of a high-ranking eyewitness and military insider, the work provides an invaluable account of Khedive Ismail’s expansionist policies, the administrative tenures of Samuel Baker and Charles Gordon, and a meticulous day-by-day record of the Siege of Khartoum.

Crucially, the text offers rare insight into the inner workings, socio-political climate, and military strategies of the Mahdist State from a captive’s point of view. Published at the dawn of the 20th century, this work remains an indispensable cornerstone for researchers studying modern Sudanese history, British imperial policy in Africa, and late-Ottoman military history.

Ibrahim Fawzi Pasha (1849–c. 1915) was a prominent Egyptian military officer and colonial administrator who played a key role in late 19th-century Sudanese history. He entered military service under Khedive Ismail and rose to prominence under General Charles George Gordon, who appointed him Governor of Central Africa, or Equatoria, and later Governor of Khartoum. During the Mahdist Uprising, Fawzi Pasha served as Gordon’s second-in-command throughout the arduous Siege of Khartoum (1884–1885). After the city fell and Gordon was killed, Mahdist forces captured Fawzi, who endured fourteen years of harsh imprisonment in Omdurman. Freed in 1898 after Lord Kitchener’s Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of Sudan, he returned to Egypt and was promoted to the rank of Pasha.

This scarce first edition in Arabic was reprinted at least twice and translated into English in 1997 under the title The history of the Sudan between the times of Gordon and Kitchener.

References: OCLC 4770076992, 71458661.