PUBLICATIONS OF JAY
SPAULDING
Updated 2 December 2011
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Books Written
Books Edited
Books Compiled
Podcasts and Blogs
Contributions to Reference Works
Book Chapters
Journal Articles
Awards and Honors
Editorial and Administrative Positions
BOOKS WRITTEN
- An
Islamic
Alliance: `Ali Dinar and the Sanusiyya, 1898-1916 (with Lidwien
Kapteijns).
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1994
- Watha'iq min
Sultanat
Sinnar fi'l-Qarn al-Thamin `Ashar (with Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Salim).
Khartoum: Khartoum University Press, 1992
- Public Documents
from
Sinnar (with Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Salim). East Lansing: Michigan
State
University Press, 1989
- After the Millennium: Diplomatic
Correspondence from Wadai and Dar Fur on the Eve of Colonial Conquest,
1885-1916 (with Lidwien Kapteijns). East Lansing: Michigan State
University
African Studies Center, 1988
- The Heroic Age in Sinnar.
East
Lansing: Michigan State University African Studies Center, 1985
Reprinted in Arabic as al-`Asr al-Batula fi'l-Sinnar
(translated by
The Honorable Ambassador Ahmad al-Mu`tasim al-Shaykh al-`Abbas),
Khartoum:
University Press, 2006
Second English edition, published by Dr.
Kassahun Checole in Asmara, Eritrea: Red Sea Press, 2007
- Een
Kennismaking met de Afrikaanse Geschiedenis (with Lidwien
Kapteijns).
Muiderberg: Coutinho, 1985
- Arcangelo Carradori's Dictionary
of
Seventeenth-Century Kenzi Nubian. Bergen: Historisk Institutt,
Universitetet
i Bergen, 1975 Published on line at Web of On-Line
Dictionaries.
- Kingdoms of the Sudan (with R.S.
O'Fahey).
London: Methuen, 1974
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BOOKS
EDITED
- Sudan's Wars
and Peace Agreements (with Stephanie Beswick, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
and
Richard Lobban) Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010
- African Systems of Slavery (with Stephanie Beswick).
Asmara and
Trenton: Red Sea Press, 2010
- Women in the Horn of Africa
(with
Stephanie Beswick), special issue of Northeast African Studies,
(New
Series), Vol. 8, No. 3. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University
Press, 2001
[appeared 2006]
- Dimensions of Gender in the Sudan,
special issue
of Northeast African Studies, (New Series), Vol.8, No. 2. East
Lansing,
MI: Michigan State University Press, 2001 [appeared in 2005]
- Medieval West Africa: Views From Arab Scholars and
Merchants
(with Nehemia Levtzion). Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2002 (second edition, 2011)
-
The Sudanese
Travels of
Theodoro Krump, 1700-1702. Union, NJ: Kean University History
Department, 2001
- White Nile, Black Blood: War, Leadership
and
Ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala (with Stephanie Beswick).
Lawrenceville,
NJ: Red Sea Press, 1999
- Personality and Political Culture in
Modern
Africa (with Melvin E. Page, Stephanie Beswick and Timothy
Carmichael).
Boston: African Studies Center, Boston University, 1998
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BOOKS COMPILED
- 9-11
and Beyond (with James Jandrowitz). Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt, 2003
Second
edition, 2005
- Dominant and Dormant Pasts (with James
Jandrowitz,
Dennis Klein, Sue Gronewald and Carole Shaffer-Koros). Dubuque, IA:
Kendall/Hunt, 2003
- American Civil Society: A Book of
Questions and
Readings (with James Jandrowitz). NY: McGraw-Hill, 2002. Second
edition,
2003. Third edition Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt, 2005. Fourth edition Dubuque:
Kendall-Hunt, 2006
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PODCASTS AND BLOGS
-
"A View of Abdullahi Gallab’s A Civil Society Deferred From a Precolonial Perspective,", in
African Arguments , 28 November 2011
- "The
Historical Development of Sudanese Ethnic Identities" (with Robert
Kramer and
R.S. O'Fahey), in SELF
AND
SOCIETY, The Darfur Radio Project, 2 November 2008
-
"Ethnicity
and Power in Sudan's Past," (with Stephanie Beswick), in AFRICA PAST AND PRESENT ,
Episode 28,
16 June 2009
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO REFERENCE WORKS
- "Funj," in the
Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Volume 2, (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz
Verlag,
2005), pp. 591-592
- "Dongola," in the Encyclopaedia
Aethiopica,
Volume 2 (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 2005). p. 191
- "Badi
IV," in
the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Volume 1 (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz
Verlag,
2005). p. 430
- "Nile," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic
History, (London, Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
- "Nubia: The
Funj Sultanate," in Encyclopedia of African History (London:
Fitzroy
Dearborn, forthcoming)
- "The Precolonial Eastern Sudan," in
Nehemia
Levtzion and Randall Pouwels, eds., History of Islamic Africa
(Athens,
OH: Ohio University Press, 2000), pp. 117-129
- "Wadai," The
Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed. (Leiden: Brill, 2001), X, p. 10-11
- "Soba" (town), The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed.
(Leiden:
Brill, 1997) IX, p. 698
- "Sinnar" (town), The Encyclopaedia
of
Islam, 2nd ed. (Leiden: Brill, 1997) IX, pp. 650-651
- "Sinnar"
(kingdom), in John Middleton, ed., The Encyclopedia of Africa South
of the
Sahara (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997) IV, 64-65
- Brief
reviews of the sixty best works on Northeast Africa. In Mary Beth Norton
and
Pamela Gerardi, eds., The American Historical Association's Guide to
Historical Literature, 3rd ed. (New York and Oxford: Oxford
University
Press, 1995) I, 584-586
- "Funj Sultanate," in John L. Esposito,
ed.,
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (New York and
Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1995) II, 37
- "De Mahdiyya in de
Soedan" (with
Lidwien Kapteijns), in M. Derks et al., eds., Kroniek van 3 eeuwen
revoluties (Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1989), pp. 143-146
- "Nile," in Joseph R. Strayer, ed., Dictionary of the Middle
Ages
(New York: Charles Scribner, 1989) IX, 137-138
- "Funj," in
Richard V.
Weekes, ed., Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, 2nd ed.
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984) I, 261-264
- "Sudan,"
(Co-author),
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica Macropaedia, 15th ed. (Chicago:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1983) XXVIII, 263-283
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BOOK CHAPTERS
- "Sudan and South Sudan," in Thomas Spear, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies
(New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
- "Urbanization and Ironworking in the Nubian State Tradition," in Kenneth R. Hall, ed., The Growth of
Non-Western Cities: Primary and Secondary Urban Networking, c.900 - 1900
(Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011), pp. 155-169.
- "The Iron King: A Reconsideration
of the
Tunjur," in Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban et al.,, Sudan's Wars and
Peace
Agreements, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), pp. 163-176
- "'Slaves of the King?' Rhetoric and Reality in the Nubian State
Tradition," in Jay Spaulding and Stephanie Beswick, eds., African
Systems of
Slavery, (Asmara and Trenton: Red Sea Press, 2010), pp. 247-265
- "Suakin: A Small City of the Early Modern Sudan," in Kenneth
Hall, ed.,
Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c.
1000-1800. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008), pp. 42-59
- "The
Conceptualization of Land Tenure in the Precolonial Sudan: Evidence and
Interpretation," (with Lidwien Kapteijns), in Donald Crummey, ed.,
Land,
Literacy and the State in Sudanic Africa (Asmara: Red Sea Press,
2005), pp.
21-41
- "Medieval Nubian Dynastic Succession," in Melvin E. Page
et al.,
eds. Personality and Political Culture in Modern Africa (Boston:
African
Studies Center, Boston University, 1998), pp. 7-14
- "Early
Kordofan," in
Michael Kevane and Endre Stiansen, eds., Kordofan Invaded: Peripheral
Incorporation and Social Transformation in Islamic Africa (Leiden:
Brill, 1998), pp. 46-59. Published in Arabic as ghazu kordofan: damh
al-atraf
wa'l-tahsul al-ijtima`i fi ifriqiya al-muslima (Cairo: Sudan Studies
Center,
2003)
- "Two Muslims on the Eve of British Colonialism in the
Sudan, 1908:
A Letter of Submission," in Said S. Samatar, In the Shadow of
Conquest: Islam
in Colonial Northeast Africa (Trenton: Red Sea Press, 1992), pp.
147-152.
- "The Orientalist Paradigm in the Historiography of the Late
Precolonial
Sudan," (with Lidwien Kapteijns), in Jay O'Brien and William Roseberry,
eds.,
Golden Ages, Dark Ages: Imagining the Past in Anthropology and
History
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991), pp.
139-151.
- "An Historical Context for the Study of Islam in Eastern
Africa," in
Kenneth W. Harrow, ed., Faces of Islam in African Literature
(Portsmouth:
Heinemann, 1991), pp. 23-36.
- "History, Ethnicity and Agriculture
in the
Sudan," (with Lidwien Kapteijns), in Gillian M. Craig, ed., The
Agriculture
of the Sudan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 84-100.
- "The Hazards of History," in Francis Madeng Deng and Prosser
Gifford,
eds., The Search for Peace and Unity in the Sudan (Washington,
DC: Wilson
Center Press, 1987), pp. 3-8
- "The End of Nubian Kingship in the
Sudan,
1720-1762," in Martin Daly, ed., Modernization in the Sudan: Essays
in Honor
of Richard Hill (New York: Lilian Barber Press, 1985), pp. 17-28
- "The Management of Exchange in Sinnar," in Leif O. Manger, ed.,
Trade
and Traders in the Eastern Sudan (Bergen: Institute of Social
Anthropology,
University of Bergen, 1984), pp. 25-48
- "The Misfortunes of
Some--The
Advantages of Others: Land-Sales by Women in Sinnar," in Margaret Jean
Hay and
Marcia Wright, eds., African Women and the Law: Historical
Perspectives
(Boston: African Studies Center, Boston University, 1982), pp. 2-18
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
- "A Tree Under Whom to Seek Shelter: Royal Justice and the Right
of Sanctuary in Sinnar," Journal of the Economic and Social
History of the Orient, 54 (2011), 1-17.
- "The Ironworking of
Ancient
Sudan, AFRICA UPDATE, Vol. V, No. 4 (Fall, 2008)
- "The Pardon
of Hasan Rajab," Sudan Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 25, No.
2
(April 2007), 21-25
- "Pastoralism, Slavery, Commerce, Culture
and the
Fate of the Nubians of Northern and Central Kordofan under Dar Fur Rule,
c. 1750
- c. 1850," International Journal of African Historical Studies
39, 3
(2006), 393-412
- "Land Tenure and the State in the Precolonial
Sudan,"
(with Lidwien Kapteijns), Northeast African Studies IX,
(2002[appeared
2007]), 33-66
- "Conflict in Dar Fur: a View from the Old Sudan,"
Sudan Studies Association Newsletter," Vol. 24, No. 2 (February
2006),
pp. 21-23
- "The Micropolitics of Elite Marriage on Echo Island,"
in Jay
Spaulding, ed., Dimensions of Gender in the Sudan, special issue
of
Northeast African Studies (New Series), Vol. 8, No. 2 (2001
[appeared
2005]), 23-34
- "Classical Medieval Nubian and the Mahas
Diaspora,"
Islam et Sociétés au Sud du Sahara, 17-18 (2004), 81-84
- "'From
Your Husband Ayyub . . . ,' A Glimpse into the Life of a Merchant Family
of
Harar, Ethiopia, 1842," Directions 1 (2002), 40-44
- "The
Bum: A Berta River Spirit and the Women who Love Her," Sudan
Notes and
Records, New Series, No. 3 (1999), 45-50
- "The Chronology of
Sudanese Arabic Genealogical Tradition," History in Africa, 27
(2000),
325-337
- "An Early Sudanese Pan-Africanist," SSA
Newsletter, 18,
4 (August, 1999), 3-6
- "Blood of a Bitten Ear," Rethinking
History:
The Journal of Theory and Practice, 3, 1 (1999), 75-77
- "An
Incident
of Dynastic Succession in Sixteenth-Century Sinnar," Northeast
African
Studies, IV, 3 (1997), 23-28
- "Individual and Communal Forms
of Land
Tenure on Echo Island, 1820-1901," Northeast African Studies, new
series,
II, 2 (1995), 115-138
- "Administrative Reform in the Mahdist
State: An
Example from the Rubatab, 1303/1885," Sudanic Africa 6, (1995),
11-16
- "Medieval Christian Nubia and the Islamic World: A
Reconsideration of
the Baqt Treaty," International Journal of African Historical
Studies XXVIII, 3 (1995), 577-594
- "Sex, Bondage and the
Market: The
Emergence of Prostitution in the Northern Sudan, 1750-1950," (with
Stephanie
Beswick), Journal of the History of Sexuality V, 4 (1995),
512-534
- "Women of the Zar and Middle-Class Sensibilities in
Colonial
Aden, 1923-1932," (with Lidwien Kapteijns), Sudanic Africa V
(1994),
7-38
- "The Betrothal of `Ambaru Bint Musa: Islamic Law versus
Somali
Custom in a Colonial Context," (with Lidwien Kapteijns), Islam et
Sociétés au=
sud du Sahara VII (1993), 193--204
- "The Birth of an African
Private
Epistolography on Echo Island, 1862-1901," Journal of African
History=20
XXXIV, 1 (1993), 125-137
- "From Slaves to Coolies: Two Documents
from
the Nineteenth-Century Somali Coast," (with Lidwien Kapteijns),
Sudanic
Africa III (1992), 1-8
- "The Value of Virginity on Echo
Island,
1820-1866," International Journal of African Historical Studies
XXV, 1
(1992), 67-83
- "The Death of Ahmad al-Rifi: The Passing of a
Generation
in Sanusi History," (with Lidwien Kapteijns), Sudanic Africa II
(1991),
113-124
- "Muhammad `Uthman al-Mirghani in Dongola: A Documentary
Footnote," Islam et Sociétés au sud du Sahara V (1991),
69-72
- "The Demographic Effect of the Arabs upon Lower Nubia before
1635:
Linguistic Evidence," Northeast African Studies X, 2-3 (1988
[appeared
1991]), 127-130
- "Gifts Worthy of Kings: An Episode in Dar Fur -
Taqali
Relations," (with Lidwien Kapteijns), Sudanic Africa I (1990),
61-70
- "The Old Shaiqi Language in Historical Perspective," History
in
Africa XVII (1990), 283-292
- "Class Formation and Gender in
Precolonial Somalia: A Research Agenda," (with Lidwien Kapteijns),
Northeast
African Studies XI, 1 (1989), 19-38
- "The Voice of the Girls
of the
Horn of Africa: A Gabay (Poem) by `Umar Mu`allin 'Hufane,'" (with
Miriam
`Umar `Ali and Lidwien Kapteijns), Ufahamu XVII, 2 (1989), 23-30
- "The Democratic Philosophers of the Medieval Sudan," (with J.L.
Spaulding), Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika IX (1988), 247-268;
reprinted as Boston University African Studies Center Working Paper
No.
134, 1989
- "The Business of Slavery in the Central
Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan, 1910-1930," African Economic History XVII (1988), 23-44
- "Indian Ocean Diplomacy: Two Documents Relating to the
Nineteenth-Century Mijertein Coast," (with Lidwien Kapteijns), Fontes
Historiae Africanae: Bulletin d'Informations XI-XII (1986/7), 16-20
- "The Periodization of Precolonial African History," (with
Lidwien
Kapteijns), Boston University African Studies Center Working Paper
No.
125, 1987
- "A Premise for Precolonial Nuba History,"
History in
Africa XIV (1987), 369-374
- "Numerical Notation and Token
Counters
in Nubia," Findings (1985), 9-12
- "The Gift of a Daughter
as
Alms," Sudan Texts Bulletin VII (1985), 64-68
- "From King
and
Kashif to Bookshelf and Bibliography," Historisk Tidsskrift III
(1985),
294-299
- "A Charter of Sultan Badi b. Nol of Sinnar,
1145/1732-1733,"
Fontes Historiae Africanae: Bulletin d'Informations IX-X
(1984-1985),
8-11
- "The Chronicle of Ahmad b. `Isa," Sudan Texts
Bulletin VI
(1984), 44-50
- "The Life and Times of al-Rabb Jad, a
Nineteenth-Century
Sudanese Freedman," Sudan Texts Bulletin VI (1984), 44-50
- "Taxation in Sinnar," Northeast African Studies VI, 1-2
(1984),
127-146
- "The Fall of a Wayward Saint," Northeast African
Studies
V, 3 (1983-1984), 43-50
- "A Charter of Badi b. Rajab, Hamaj
Regent of
Sinnar," Sudan Texts Bulletin V (1983), 68-72
- "A Summons
from
Sinnar," (with R.S. O'Fahey), Sudan Texts Bulletin V (1983),
64-67
- "An Appeal for Support by the Great Manjil Muhammad
`Adlan on the
Arrival of the Turks in Sinnar," (with R.S. O'Fahey), Sudan Texts
Bulletin V (1983), 73-80
- "Precolonial Trade between States
in the
Eastern Sudan," (with Lidwien Kapteijns), African Economic
History XI
(1982), 29-62
- "A Grant by the 'Great Manjil' to the
'Great
Faqih' of Sinnar," Sudan Texts Bulletin IV (1982), 20-28
- "Dar Fur on the Nile: A Charter of the Maqdum Musallim,"
Sudan
Texts Bulletin IV (1982), 14-19
- "Two Documents from the
Days of
Nasir b. Muhammad Abu Likaylik, Hamaj Regent of Sinnar," Fontes
Historiae
Africanae: Bulletin d'Informations VII-VIII (1982-1983), 33-37
- "The
Sinnar King-List of the Sid al-Qum Ahmad," (with `Abd al-Ghaffar
Muhammad
Ahmad), Sudan Notes and Records LVI (1975 [appeared 1983]),
234-242
- "Slavery, Land Tenure and Social Class in the Northern Turkish
Sudan,
1820-1881," International Journal of African Historical Studies
XV, 1
(1982), 1-20
- "A Confirming Charter of Sultan `Adlan b. Isma`il
of
Sinnar," Sudan Texts Bulletin III (1981), 20-37
- "A
Sultanic
Present,"(with R.S. O'Fahey), Sudan Texts Bulletin III (1981),
38-43
- "A Colophon from Eighteenth-Century Sinnar," (with Ahmad
al-Mu`tasim
al-`Abbas and `Ali `Osman Muhammad Salih), Fontes Historiae
Africanae:
Bulletin d'Informations VI (1981), 13-18
- "Kora: A
Theme in
Nubian Cultural History," Africa Today XXVIII, 2 (1981), 61-68
- "A Sudanese Battle in about 1800," (with R.S. O'Fahey), Sudan
Texts
Bulletin II (1980), 42-46
- "Two Credit Documents from
Sinnar,"
Sudan Texts Bulletin II (1980), 59-61
- "The Deposition of
a
Makk of Berber," (with al-Hajj Hamid Muhammad Khayr), Sudan
Texts
Bulletin II (1980), 47-58
- "Toward a Demystification of the
Funj:
Some Perspectives on Society in Southern Sinnar," Northeast African
Studies II, 1 (1980), 1-18
- "A Mortgage Foreclosure from
Sinnar,"
Sudan Texts Bulletin I (1979), 26-32
- "A Confirming
Charter of
Sultan Badi b. Tabl of Sinnar," Sudan Texts Bulletin I (1979),
18-25
- "Farmers, Herdsmen and the State in Rainland Sinnar," Journal
of
African History XX, 3 (1979), 329-347
- "Alodia,"
Transafrican
Journal of History II (1977), 39-53
- "The Evolution of the
Islamic
Judiciary in Sinnar," International Journal of Africa Historical
Studies
X, 3 (1977), 408-426
- "A Seal from Nineteenth-Century Sinnar,"
(with
`Abd al-Ghaffar Muhammad Ahmad), Sudan Notes and Records LV
(1974),
175-176
- "'Gar Mol!' -- A Meroitic Survival in the Court
Ritual
of Sinnar?" Bulletin d'Informations M=E9roitique 15 (1974),
10-11
- "Comment: The Geographical Location of Gaoga," (with R.S.
O'Fahey),
Journal of African History XIV, 3 (1973), 505-507
- "Three
Court
Titles from an Extinct Language of the Northern Sudan, Bulletin
d'Informations M=E9roitique 12 (1973), 35-36
- "A Text in an
Unidentified Language of Seventeenth-Century Sinnar," Bulletin
d'Informations
M=E9roitique 12 (1973), 30-34
- "The Government of Sinnar,"
International Journal of African Historical Studies VI, 1 (1973),
19-35
- "Hashim and the Musabba`at," (with R.S. O'Fahey), Bulletin of
the
School of Oriental and African Studies XXXV, 2 (1972), 316-333.
- "The
Funj: A Reconsideration," Journal of African History XIII, 1
(1972),
39-54
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AWARDS AND HONORS
- Fulbright Research Fellowship,
Historisk
Institutt, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway, 1975
- President, Sudan
Studies
Association (USA), 1987-1988
- Public Documents from Sinnar
nominated, and a finalist, for the first Critical Edition Award of the
African
Studies Association, 1993
- Keynote speaker, Fourth International
Conference of Sudan Studies Associations, Cairo, Egypt, 1997
- Kean University Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 2000
- Kean University Alumni Association Teacher of the Year Award, 2012
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EDITORIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE
POSITIONS
- Editor for the Sudan, Oxford Bibliographies Online.
- Advisory Board for H-HORN (Humanities Net listserve for Northeast Africa)
- Editor for
Northeast Africa, Dictionary of African Biography.
- Book
Review
Editor (with Stephanie Beswick), Sudan Studies Association
Bulletin.
- On-Line Book Review Editor (with Stephanie Beswick), Humanities
Net
H-Africa.
- Co-editor, Sudanic Africa: A Journal of Historical
Sources.
- Contributing Associate Editor, Northeast African
Studies.
- Editorial Board, Journal of the History of
Sexuality.
- Editorial Board, "Islam and Society in Africa"
series,
Northwestern University Press.
- Review Panel for Fulbright
Research
Abroad Awards to Africa, 1994ff.
- Review Panel for Department of
Education Title VI Grants in International Studies, 1999ff.
- Executive
Secretary, Association for the Publication of African Historical Sources
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