1st Edition
Chronicles of Qalāwūn and his son al-Ashraf Khalīl
Introduction
Text 1a. Ibn `Abd al-¿ahir, Tashrif al-ayyam wa-l-`u¿ur fi sirat al-Malik al-Man¿ur
Text 1b. Ibn `Abd al-¿ahir, al-Al¿af al-khafiyya min al-sira al-sharifa al-sul¿aniyya al-malikiyya al-ashrafiyya (selections)
Text 2. al-Ashraf’s treaty with Jaime II of Aragon
Text 3. al-Shafi` b. `Ali, al-Fa¿l al-ma’thur fi sirat al-Malik al-Man¿ur (selections)
Text 4a. Baybars al-Man¿uri, Zubdat al-fikra
Text 4b. Baybars al-Man¿uri, al-Tu¿fa al-mulukiyya fi al-dawla al-Turkiyya
Text 4c. Baybars al-Man¿uri, Mukhtarat al-akhbar
Biography
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).
