1st Edition
Baybars’ Successors Ibn al-Furāt on Qalāwūn and al-Ashraf
By Translated by David Cook
Copyright 2020
306 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
306 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
306 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405) is an understudied Mamluk historian, whose materials for the period of the later Crusades is unique. While sections of his history for the period prior to 1277 have been translated, later sections have not. His text provides both an overview and a critique of earlier historians, and supplies us with a large number of unique documents, treaties, and intimate discussions that... Read more
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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).
