Wiki Sudanالعربية

Wiki Sudan

A free, open digital archive of Sudanese history — books, documents, and records, preserved and searchable in Arabic and English.

588 works catalogued213 readable here, free8,435 pages of searchable text

Painted panorama of Sudan at dusk: Suakin on the Red Sea, the Nuba hills, the Nile with a dhow and a domed qubba, the Darfur highlands, and the pyramids of Meroë
One country, many homelandsFrom the Red Sea coast and the Nuba hills to the two Niles, Darfur's highlands and the pyramids of the north — the archive belongs to all of them.

What is this?

A community digital library preserving Sudan’s written history — free, open, and bilingual. We host only public-domain and openly licensed works; every book carries its source and its licence. Works we cannot lawfully host are catalogued and linked to where they live.

How to use it

  1. Follow the river — pick an era along the Nile timeline to open its shelf of books.
  2. Search — one box looks through titles, authors, and the full text of every page.
  3. Read — open any book page by page in your browser, free, or download the original scan.

Kerma

c. 2500 – 1500 BC

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Kush & Meroë

c. 1070 BC – 350 AD

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The cottage piper, or, History of Edgar, the itinerant musician : an instructive tale : ornamented with cuts1815Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Libanon and Cyprus, in the year 18141818Travels of M. Burckhardt in Egypt and Nubia1819

Christian Nubia

c. 350 – 1504 AD

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Islamic Era & Funj

1504 – 1821

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Voyages du chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l'Orient : enrichis d'un grand nombre de belles figures en taille-douce, représentant les antiquités et les choses remarquables du pay ... 81811An account of Timbuctoo and Housa, territories in the interior of Africa1820An account of Timbuctoo and Housa, territories in the interior of Africa, [communicated to J.G.J.]1820

The Mahdiyya

1881 – 1898

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The Condominium

1899 – 1956

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