Ittiʿāẓ al-ḥunafāʾ bi akhbār al-aʾimma al-khulafāʾ of Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Maqrīzī. Arabic critical edition in 4 volumes

Ittiʿāẓ al-ḥunafāʾ bi-akhbār al-aʾimma al-khulafāʾ by the great Mamlūk-era Sunnī historian Taqī al-Dīn al-Maqrīzī (d. 845/1442) is perhaps the most important single primary source for the history of the FatimidsMajor Muslim dynasty of Ismaili caliphs in North Africa (from 909) and later in Egypt (973–1171) More. Although the Fatimids had long ceased to exist by the time of al-Maqrīzī, he nonetheless endeavoured to investigate this Shīʿī dynasty and its reign with care and sympathy, while avoiding sectarian partisanship and seeking accuracy in historical documentation. The Ittiʿāẓ is unique amongst al-Maqrīzī’s writings in the sense that it was devoted exclusively to Fatimid historiography.

This important text is presented here in a four-volume Arabic critical edition by the distinguished Egyptian scholar Ayman Fuʾād Sayyid(pl. sāda/asyād) Arabic term for ‘lord’ or ‘master’. It is a pre-Islamic term and refers to a person who possesses dignity or enjoys an exalted position among his people. Amongst…. This publication represents a major achievement in the scholarship on the history of the Fatimids and Egypt under the Fatimid dynasty (358/969–567/1171).