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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