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Writing Egypt - Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project (Paperback)
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Writing Egypt - Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project (Paperback)
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Although 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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