Writing Egypt

Al-Maqrizi and his Historical Project

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvNasser Rabbat,MIT) Rabbat, Nasser (Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-22
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt556 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor332
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399502825
UtmärkelserWinner of British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize 2024 (UK)

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ForewordIntroductionPart 1: The Life of al-MaqriziChapter 1: The Formative YearsThe Sources on al-Maqrizi’s Life A Family of Scholars The Loving Presence of Women in al-Maqrizi's LifeA Solid Scholarly FormationIbn Khaldun: Teacher and InterlocutorA Glorious Lineage? Al-Maqrizi’s Representation of the FatimidsChapter 2: Career, Moral Crisis, and WithdrawalA Question of Madhhab? Building a CareerQuest for PatronsThe Hisba SagaRivalry with Badr al-Din al-‘AyniThe Damascus Interlude The Beginning of EstrangementLast Attempts at Finding Patronage?WithdrawalDeathPart 2: The Writing of al-MaqriziChapter 3: Harvest of a Lifetime A Tentative Inventory of al-Maqrizi’s WorksNotebooks and Abridgments: A Window into al-Maqrizi’s Sourcing MethodThe Beginnings: From Abridger to Author The Concept of Kharab: Looking Back as MethodThe History of Egypt: An Integrated Project Chapter 4: The Khitat: History and Belonging The Khitat: A Cumulative Book?Al-Mawa‘iz wa-l-I‘tibar: What’s in a TitleAl-Maqrizi’s Notion of History Khitat and Athar: The Totality of the Urban SpaceThe Patriotic ImpulseStructuring the Khitat on the Tempo of RuinationAl-Maqrizi and the Khaldunian Cyclical HistoryPart 3: The Afterlife of al-Maqrizi’s WritingChapter 5: Al-Maqrizi and the OrientalistsThe Khitat as Urban HistoryAl-Maqrizi and the OttomansAl-Maqrizi, Napoléon, and the Early OrientalistsArabic Editions of al-Maqrizi’s KhitatTranslating al-Maqrizi’s KhitatRe-Editing al-MaqriziChapter 6: Reading al-Maqrizi in Modern EgyptAl-Maqrizi’s Readers on the Eve of the Nahda: al-Jabarti and Hasan al-‘Attar Publishing al-Maqrizi’s Khitat Reviving the Khitat Genre: ‘Ali Mubarak and Muhammad Kurd‘aliArchitectural History Comes to Egypt: From Coste to CreswellNationalist Egyptian Architectural History: ‘Abdel-Wahab, Fikri, and Shafe‘iAl-Maqrizi in the Modern Narratives of Cairo: Mahfouz and al-Ghitani Al-Maqrizi in the Egyptian Consciousness: Shalabi and SururIn the Guise of a ConclusionBibliography

This will be Rabbat’s magnum opus. The culmination of the author’s career-long devotion to al-Maqrizi’s work, Writing Egypt is a very human assessment of the life and scholarship of one of the most influential historians of the medieval Islamic world. This beautiful work, which has one foot in Mamluk Studies and the other in historical biography, carefully examines historical craft, vividly portrays daily life in medieval Cairo, and raises important questions about identity-making in modern Egypt.