Year
2018
Publisher
Brill
Language
English
Pages
31
ISBN
978-9-00435-553-8
Last Update
28-Nov-2025
Keywords
History ; Asian Studies ; Middle East Studies
The Egyptian historian Taqī l-Dīn Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Maqrīzī (766/1364–845/1442) wrote his last work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, towards the end of his life to complete his historiographical œuvre by adding to it this history of the world in pre-Islamic times.¹ The six-volume² work was begun in 836/1433 and the third volume was completed in 844/1441.³ It seems, though, that before the completion of the third volume, al-Maqrīzī had collected materials for the remaining parts, too, although the final parts of the text show signs of hurried composition: towards the end of the present part al-Maqrīzī’s quotation technique slightly changes...
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