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Cover illustration: MS Or. 560 (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek), fol. 66a.
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Names: Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364–1442, author. | Daaïf, Lahcen,editor. | Rapoport, Yossef, 1968–, editor. | Bauden, Frédéric, editor.
Title: 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 ʿan mā fī arḍ Miṣr min al-aʿrāb / Lahcen Daaïf, YossefRapoport.
Other titles: Bayān wa-l-iʿrāb ʿan mā fī arḍ Miṣr min al-aʿrāb.English
Description: Boston : Brill, 2024. | Series: Bibliotheca maqriziana,2211-6737 ; volume 10 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |Text in English; translation from Arabic | Summary: "Al-Bayān wa-l-iʿrāb ʿan mā fī arḍ Miṣr min al-aʿrāb is an influential treatise onthe Arab and Berber groups that inhabited the Egyptian countryside inthe late medieval period. The work brings together al-Maqrizi’slife-long preoccupation with the history of Egypt and his parallelinterest in the history of the Arabs, pitting the lineage-based ideologyof Arab rebels against the Mamluk elite of manumitted slaves. Over thepast century, the Bayan has been repeatedly deployed in public debatesabout the Arab identity of Egypt. This book offers a critical study ofthe treatise in its fifteenth century context, an academic edition, anda first translation into English"– Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024023553 (print) | LCCN 2024023554 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004704084 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004704091 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364–1442. Bayān wa-l-iʿrāb ʿan mā fī arḍ Miṣr min al-aʿrāb. | Arabs–Egypt–History. |Ethnology–History.
Classification: LCC DT72.A7 M313 2024 (print) | LCC DT72.A7 (ebook) | DDC962/.004927–dc23/eng/20240605
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ISSN 2211-6737
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DOI 10.1163/9789004704091
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