Al-Maqr_z_�s al-_abar _an al-ba_ar; Vol. V; Section 4: Persia and Its Kings; Part I,

Year

2018

Publisher

Brill

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-9-00435-553-8

Link

Last Update

21-May-2026

Keywords

History ; Asian Studies ; Middle East Studies

Description

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...