The book deals with the biographies of these personalities, or their characters and inclinations, or the events associated with them. The text, as it appeared in the manuscripts, did not have any division of any kind. The researcher, the Orientalist Houdas, came and divided it into forty-eight chapters, but he left the text as it was without any change in its general framework. He even left the chapters in the French text without titles, contenting himself with writing the chapter numbers: the first chapter, the second chapter, and so on, up to the thirty-eighth chapter. He also omitted the titles of the chapters in the French text. Most of these titles were a translation of the chapter headings as they appeared in the Arabic text. He included these titles in the Arabic preface. The French text was preceded by a highly valuable introduction that was of great help to me in dealing with the book and getting to know its author. In addition to this, the researcher added to the end of the pages of the French text many very important notes and commentaries, in which he explained the origins of some names and their meanings, and the method of their writing, pointing out their linguistic origins, and clarifying what was ambiguous in the text. It is a lot, in terms of its volume, compared to the original. These notes and commentaries are at the end of the pages of the French text of Tarikh al-Fattash. One of the reasons for this was that Tarikh al-Fattash was published fifteen years before Tarikh al-Sudan. Houdas, who collaborated with the French Orientalist Delafosse in verifying and translating, wanted to shed more light and experience on this period. He felt the importance of Tarikh al-Fattash, and the importance of what he added to Tarikh al-Sudan. Therefore, he and his colleague devoted great effort to this aspect of their work on Tarikh al-Fattash. The truth is that what is mentioned at the end of the pages of Tarikh al-Fattash is a general introduction that is not enough for the reader to fully understand the French text. Houdas also added at the end of the French text an index of prominent figures with page numbers.