Al-Shater Bossely Abdul Jalil

Abdul Jalil was born in Aswan, Egypt, in 1901.^[2] He attended Cairo University, where he studied history and anthropology.

Abdul Jalil served under the Sudan Government from 1919 to 1951.^[1] After 1951, he worked as the Librarian of the Institute of Sudanese Studies at Cairo University.^[1]

Abdul Jalil's primary scholarly work, An Outline History of the Nile Valley Sudan (Arabic: معالم تاريخ سودان وادي النيل), was published in 1955 by Abu Fadil Press in Cairo.^[1] The work was reviewed in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1957^[1] and in Antiquity magazine in 1956.^[3]

Abdul Jalil also edited The Manuscript of Katib al-Shuna (Arabic: مخطوطة كاتب الشونة في تاريخ السلطنة السنارية والإدارة المصرية), a historical manuscript on the Funj Sultanate, published in 1961.^[4]

Abdul Jalil died in 1977.^[2] His research on Sudanese history has been cited by scholars of African history,^[5] including by historian Jay Spaulding in his work on the Funj Sultanate.