The Book of Clear Arabic Expression regarding the Arab Tribes of Egypt : An edition, translation and study of al-Maqrīzī's al-Bayān wa'l-iʿrāb ʿammā bi-arḍ Miṣr min al-aʿrāb /

The Book of Clear Arabic Expression regarding the Arab Tribes of Egypt : An edition, translation and study of al-Maqrīzī's al-Bayān wa'l-iʿrāb ʿammā bi-arḍ Miṣr min al-aʿrāb /

Al-Bayān wa'l-iʿrāb ʿammā fī arḍ Miṣr min al-aʿrāb 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-Maqrīzī's life-long preoccupation with the history of Egypt and his par...

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Other Authors: Daaïf, Lahcen (Editor), Rapoport, Yossef (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English
Arabic

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Bibliotheca Maqriziana ; 10.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

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Arabs > Egypt > History.
Ethnology > History.

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Call Number: DT72.A7

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Plates and Maps
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Date and Audience
  • 2 Structure, Contents, and Terminology
  • 3 The MamlÅ«k Genealogical Genre
  • 1 Al-Ê¿UmarÄ«
  • 4 Migration and Provincial Elites in the Bayān
  • 1 The History of Arab Migration to Egypt
  • 2 The Arab Rebellion of the Å arÄ«f Ḥiá¹£n al-DÄ«n á¹®aÊ¿lab
  • 3 Arab and Berber Provincial Elites: Awlād al-Kanz and the Hawwārah
  • 5 The Berber Tribes
  • 6 The Bayān and Ibn ḪaldÅ«n
  • 7 Al-MaqrÄ«zÄ«, the Arabs, and the Bayān
  • 8 Afterlife
  • 1 Printed Editions
  • 2 The Bayān in the Contemporary Arab World
  • 9 Manuscript Copies of the Bayān (in approximate chronological order)
  • 10 The Edition
  • Plates and Maps
  • Abbreviations and Symbols
  • Critical Edition and Translation of al-MaqrÄ«zÄ«'s al-Bayān wa-l-iÊ¿rāb Ê¿an mā fÄ« arḍ Miá¹£r min al-aÊ¿rāb
  • Bibliography
  • List of Quoted Manuscripts
  • Index of Names (People and Places)
  • Index of Technical Terms
  • Index of Sources in al-Bayān wa-l-iÊ¿rāb Ê¿an mā fÄ« arḍ Miá¹£r min al-aÊ¿rāb
  • Facsimile of MS Or. 560 (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek), Fols.66 a -77 b.