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Biographical Sketch: Rex Sean O’Fahey, EditorProfessor Rex Sean O’Fahey, Professor of History, University of Bergen, Norway,has specialised in African and Middle Eastern History, with special reference tothe intellectual and literary history of Islam in Africa, pre-colonial history of theSudan, Sufism, and contemporary Islamic movements in northeast Africa. ProfessorO’Fahey has published numerous books concerning these areas of interest, amongwhich, to name a few, are State and Society in Dar Für (London, Christopher Hurst,1980); al-Dawla wa’l-mujtama’ fi D r Für, trans. Abd al Hafiz Sulayman Umar, with anew introduction by the author (Cairo, Markaz al-Dirasat al-Sudaniyya, 2000); (withJ.L. Spaulding) Kingdoms of the Sudan (London, Methuen, 1974); (with M.I. AbuSalim) Land in Dar Fur: Charters and Related Documents from the Dar Für Sultanate(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983); and ‘The Growth and Developmentof the Keira Sultanate of Darfur’ (un-plublished). O’Fahey holds a BA (Hons.), Africanand Middle Eastern History, from the University of London, and a PhD from theUniversity of London.109