Al-Maqrizi (d.1442) and Abd Al-Basit (d.1514) and Their Accounts on the Economy of Egypt

Mujani, Wan Kamal; Yaakub, Noor Inayah

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“…The works that refer to the Nayl are (Mujani 2013), (Frenkel 2018), (Massoud 2005), (Kemal Mujani 2006), (Yosef 2017). Khalid al-Wahaibi has an M. Litt.…”

Section: Nayl Al-amal Fı ¯ Zayl Al-duwal (Achieving the Hope In The S...mentioning

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Imagining Rūm in Mamluk Cairo: ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ al-Malaṭī and the Ottoman Domains

İlgezdi

2023

Diyar

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This thesis is a study of a neglected late Mamluk scholar and historian Abd al-Basit b. Khalil b. Shahin al-Malati with a special focus on the image of the Ottomans and their patronage in his historical works and especially his biographical dictionary. Al-Malati depicts the Ottoman sultans as generous patrons of knowledge and portrays the contemporary Ottoman ruler Bayezid II as a scholar-king. The present thesis attempts to introduce al-Malati and his oeuvre, contextualize his historical works, also searching for how he learned about the Rumi sultans. Informal networks between these two regions played a significant role in al-Malati's description of Ottoman patronage. By informal networks here, we mean al-Malati's encounters with various scholars, merchants, emigres, and captives from the Ottoman lands outside the formal channels of diplomacy and scholarly activities. The thesis also contextualizes al-Malati's observations about Rumi scholars and Bayezid II's patronage and argues that al-Malati's trouble with contemporary Mamluk patronage led him to adopt a pro-Ottoman attitude amid the power struggle between the Mamluks and the Ottomans in the eastern Mediterranean. Building on these points, the study also seeks to problematize the idea that the Ottoman lands were marginal to Islamic learning before the Ottoman conquest of Greater Syria and Egypt in 1517. A careful study of al-Malati and his environment suggests that Ottoman scholarly life was appreciated in Mamluk scholarly circles in the late fifteenth century, already before the Ottoman expansion into the Arab lands.

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“…The works that refer to the Nayl are (Mujani 2013), (Frenkel 2018), (Massoud 2005), (Kemal Mujani 2006), (Yosef 2017). Khalid al-Wahaibi has an M. Litt.…”

Section: Nayl Al-amal Fı ¯ Zayl Al-duwal (Achieving the Hope In The S...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Imagining Rūm in Mamluk Cairo: ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ al-Malaṭī and the Ottoman Domains

İlgezdi

2023

Diyar

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“…Al-Maqrīzī's text on the Black Death can be found translated into French in WIET 1962. See alsoMUJANI andYAAKUB 2013 and DOLS 1977: 7-8, who calls it "the most important (though not contemporary) historical text dealing with the Black Death in Egypt and Syria".…”

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Two-year Journey under the Arrows of the Black Death

Tresso

2021

JAIS

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The penultimate part of the Riḥla by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa recounts his return journey to Morocco from the Middle East through North Africa—and another short tour in al-Andalus—between January 1348 and March 1350. At that time, in all these territories the plague pandemic known as the Black Death was raging and references to it punctuate this part of the work like a tired refrain. As numerous studies have shown borrowings and adaptations from other sources in the Riḥla, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa may not have made all the journeys he claims, but to date no one has questioned his journey through the Arabian area in those years. On the contrary, historians of the Black Death regard the Riḥla as an important document for the study of the scourge in the Middle East and North Africa. In this paper I aim to reconstruct the narrative of the pandemic in Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s Riḥla by taking from the text the passages in which it is mentioned, in order to answer some questions: to which places do these passages refer? What information does the Riḥla give about the disease, its effects and people’s reaction? Does it correspond to that provided by the Arab chronicles? Does it fit with current microbiology, genetics and palaeogenetics research? Since the Riḥla is a narrative work, how does it describe the scourge? Does its description differ from that of the chroniclers? The concluding paragraph seeks an answer to two more questions: does the Riḥla report Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s experience or might he and/or the editor of the work, Ibn Ǧuzayy, have taken information from other sources? And if Ibn Baṭṭūṭa did make this journey, thus probably being the only traveller who left an account of a “two-year journey under the arrows of the Black Death,” how could he return home unscathed?

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The Iḥyāʾ of al-Jāmiʿ al-Anwar: Religious Values in the Restoration of Sacred Islamic Monuments

Madraswala¹

2021

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Al-Maqrizi (d.1442) and Abd Al-Basit (d.1514) and Their Accounts on the Economy of Egypt

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Imagining Rūm in Mamluk Cairo: ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ al-Malaṭī and the Ottoman Domains

Imagining Rūm in Mamluk Cairo: ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ al-Malaṭī and the Ottoman Domains

Two-year Journey under the Arrows of the Black Death

The Iḥyāʾ of al-Jāmiʿ al-Anwar: Religious Values in the Restoration of Sacred Islamic Monuments

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