Writing Egypt : : Al-Maqrizi and his Historical Project / / Nasser Rabbat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Rabbat, Nasser,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Short References to Frequently Cited Primary Sources --; Abbreviations --; Notes on Transcription and Dates --; Introduction: A Singular Mamluk Historian --; PART 1 THE LIFE OF AL-MAQRIZI --; CHAPTER 1 The Formative Years --; CHAPTER 2 Career, Moral Crisis, and Withdrawal --; PART 2 THE WRITINGS OF AL-MAQRIZI --; CHAPTER 3 Harvest of a Lifetime --; CHAPTER 4 The Khitat: History and Belonging --; PART 3 THE AFTERLIFE OF AL-MAQRIZI’S WRITING --; CHAPTER 5 Al-Maqrizi and the Orientalists --; CHAPTER 6 Reading al-Maqrizi in Modern Egypt --; In the Guise of a Conclusion: Becoming the Greatest Historian of Egypt --; Bibliography --; Index of Books Cited in the Text --; General Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781399502832; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110992960; 9783110992939; 9783110780390
• DOI: 10.1515/9781399502832
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nasser Rabbat.

Recounts the life of Egypt’s greatest historian, analyses his work and assesses its impact then and nowOffers the most complete, probing and layered biography of al-Maqrizi Interprets al-Maqrizi’s historical output as a long-term scholarly project revolving around his famous Khitat to capture the entire history of EgyptAnalyses al-Maqrizi’s approach and methodologies in light of his beliefs, ethics, feelings, education, social standing, world views, politics and personal circumstancesDistills from al-Maqrizi’s massive textual output insights into his theorising, conception of history and the influence of his teacher Ibn KhaldunRestores him to the pinnacle of Mamluk historiographical tradition as an unusually outspoken critic who was animated by his moral rectitudeAlthough al-Maqrizi is recognised as the most influential historian of pre-modern Egypt, he has never received the probing historical treatment warranted by his standing and scholarly output. This book fills that gap. Arranged in three sections, it tells al-Maqrizi’s life story in the first, weaves it with historiographical, textual and methodological analysis of his oeuvre in the second, and reconstructs the afterlife of the author and his work down to the present in the third part.al-Maqrizi is presented both as a man of his age who forged a distinct and unique scholarly persona and a historian with a structured and principled project aiming to reconstruct the history of Islamic Egypt in all its facets. His, however, was a critical stance with moral overtones, conceived from within the epistemological framework of a medieval Muslim thinker, which ensured not only his reputation in his own historiographical tradition, but also his reclamation in the modern Egyptian consciousness as one of the most original voices of Egypt.