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Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and his historical project

Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and his historical project
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ISBN 1399502824 (softcover)
9781399502825 (softcover)
Author Rabbat, Nasser O.
Title Writing Egypt : Al-Maqrizi and his historical project / Nasser Rabbat
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023
Physical desc. xi, 337 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-326) and index.
Contents Introduction: a singular Mamluk historian -- Part 1: The life of al-Maqrizi. The formative years -- Career, moral crisis, and withdrawal -- Part 2: The writings of al-Maqrizi. Harvest of a lifetime -- The Khitat: history and belonging -- Part 3: The afterlife of al-Maqrizi's writing. Al-Maqrizi and the orientalists -- Reading al-Maqrizi in modern Egypt -- In the guise of a conclusion: becoming the greatest historian of Egypt.
Person as subject Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī -- 1364-1442
Subject Historians -- Egypt -- Biography
Historians, Arab -- Biography
Historiography -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500
Mamelukes -- History
Egypt -- History -- 640-1250
Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517
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