P.M. Holt was Professor of the History of the Near & Middle East in the University of London, whose many important works on Sudanese history included most notably The Mahdist State in the Sudan (1970) M.W. Daly is the author of some fifteen books on the history of the Sudan, including most recently Darfur's Sorrow: The forgotten history of a humanitarian disaster (2nd edition 2010). |
