David Cook is professor of religion at Rice University, US. His areas of specialisation include early Islamic history and development, Muslim apocalyptic literature, radical Islam, historical astronomy, and Judeo-Arabic literature. His previous publications include ‘The Book of Tribulations’: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition: An Annotated Translation by Nu`aym b. Hammad al-Marwazi (2017).

• Introduction; Text 1a. Ibn `Abd al-Ẓāhir, Tashrīf al-ayyām wa-l-`uṣūr fī sīrat al-Malik al-Manṣūr; Text 1b. Ibn `Abd al-Ẓāhir, al-Alṭāf al-khafiyya min al-sīra al-sharīfa al-sulṭāniyya al-malikiyya al-ashrafiyya (selections); Text 2. al-Ashraf’s treaty with Jaime II of Aragon; Text 3. al-Shafī` b. `Alī, al-Faḍl al-ma’thūr fi sīrat al-Malik al-Manṣūr (selections); Text 4a. Baybars al-Manṣūrī, Zubdat al-fikra; Text 4b. Baybars al-Manṣūrī, al-Tuḥfa al-mulūkiyya fi al-dawla al-Turkiyya; Text 4c. Baybars al-Manṣūrī, Mukhtārāt al-akhbār

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