ISBN:
9789004704091
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (329 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Bibliotheca Maqriziana Series v.10
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
962/.004927
Keywords:
Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī
;
Arabs History
;
Ethnology History
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Series Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Plates and Maps -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Date and Audience -- Chapter 2. Structure, Contents, and Terminology -- Chapter 3. The Mamlūk Genealogical Genre -- Chapter 4. Migration and Provincial Elites in the Bayān -- 1. The History of Arab Migration to Egypt -- 2. The Arab Rebellion of the Šarīf Ḥiṣn al-Dīn Ṯaʿlab -- 3. Arab and Berber Provincial Elites: Awlād al-Kanz and the Hawwārah -- Chapter 5. The Berber Tribes -- Chapter 6. The Bayān and Ibn Ḫaldūn -- Chapter 7. Al-Maqrīzī, the Arabs, and the Bayān -- Chapter 8. Afterlife -- 1. Printed Editions -- 2. The Bayān in the Contemporary Arab World -- Chapter 9. Manuscript Copies of the Bayān (in approximate chronological order) -- Chapter 10. The Edition -- Plates and Maps -- Abbreviations and Symbols -- Text and Translation of al-Maqrīzī's al-Bayān wa-l-iʿrāb ʿan mā fī arḍ Miṣr min al-aʿrāb كتاب البيان والإعراب عن ما في أرض مصر من الأعراب The Book of Clear Arabic Expression Regarding the Arab Tribes of Egypt -- Bibliography -- List of Quoted Manuscripts -- Index of Tribes, Dynasties, Families and Other Groups -- Index of Personal Names -- Index of Place Names -- Index of Quoted Sources in al-Bayān wa-l-iʿrāb -- Index of Technical Terms -- Facsimile of MS Or. 560 (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek),Fols. 66a-79b -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
"Al-Bayan wa'l-i'rab 'amma fi ard Misr min al-a'rab is an influential treatise on the Arab and Berber groups that inhabited the Egyptian countryside in the late medieval period. The work brings together al-Maqrizi's life-long preoccupation with the history of Egypt and his parallel interest in the history of the Arabs, pitting the lineage-based ideology of Arab rebels against the Mamluk elite of manumitted slaves. Over the past century, the Bayan has been repeatedly deployed in public debates about the Arab identity of Egypt. This book offers a critical study of the treatise in its fifteenth century context, an academic edition, and a first translation into English"--
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