Maqrizi

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MAQRĪZĪ

(1364-1442 A.D.)

Abū-l-'Abbās Aḥmad b.'Abdalla b. 'Alī b. Muḥ. al-Ḥusaynī Taqī ad-dīn al-Maqrīzī. This Egyptian Encyclopaedist and historian began his career in government service and was successively appointed Inspector of revenues and weights in the Delta. Then after having been preacher at Cairo, he became professor at Damascus. He died in Cairo.

Brockelmann 2, 38-41; EI (s.v. Makrizi)

1.) Al-mawā'iz wa-l-i'tibār fī dhikr al-khiṭaṭ wa-l-āthār (A Topographical Encyclopaedia)

Ed.: Bulaq, 2 vols. 1853-54; Cairo 1890; and 1906- 1908; G. Wiet (critical edition) MIFAO, 5 vols., Paris 1911-1927. French transl.: C. Bouriant-P. Casanova, Description Topoqraphique et Historique de l'Egypte, MIFAO, 6 vols., Paris 1893-1906.

T.: Wiet (= W.) and Bouriant (= B.) and Bulaq and Casanova (= C.) A:1

2.) K. as-sulūk li-ma’rifat duwal al-mulūk

Ed.: K. Mustafa Ziada, 2 vols., Cairo 1934-1939.

Exc.: Mus'ad, al-Maktaba, pp. 346-354 (from 3 Cairo MSS). French transl.: for the period 1169-1250 (= Ayyubids): E. Blochet, Histoire d’Eqypte de Makrizi, Paris 1908; for the period 1250-1400 (= Mamelukes): E. Quatremère, Histoire des Sultans Mamlouks par Makrizi, 2 vols., Paris 1837-1844.

T.: Ziada and Mus'ad A:0

3.) Al-bayān wa-l-i'rāb ' ammā bi-arḍ Miṣr min al-a'rāb

MSS Cairo, Bibl. Nat. MSS 1527 (Hist.), 1150 and 2139.

Exc.: Mus'ad, al-Maktaba, pp. 321-323.

T.: Mus'ad A: 0

4.) At-Ta'rīkh al-kabīr al-muqaffā

MS: Paris, Bibl. Nat., MS ar. 675.

Exc.: Mus'ad, al-Maktaba, pp. 355-371; French transl. Quatremère, Mémoires II, pp. 59-80; 81-86.

T.: Mus'ad A:0

5.) K. adh-dhahab al-masbūk (about Pilgrimages of Caliphs and Kings)

Ed.: Gamaleddin al-Shayyal, Cairo 1955.

T.: Gamaleddin A:0