The Book of Clear Arabic Expression Regarding the Arab Tribes of Egypt

An Edition, Translation and Study of Al-Maqrīzī's Al-Bayān Wa'l-Iʿrāb ʿammā Bi-Arḍ Miṣr Min Al-Aʿrāb
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-70408-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Arabisch, Band 10, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: Bibliotheca Maqriziana

Al-Bayan wa’l-i'rab 'amma fi ard Misr min al-a'rab is an influential treatise on the Arab and Berber groups that inhabited the Egyptian countryside in the late medieval period. The work brings together al-Maqrizi’s life-long preoccupation with the history of Egypt and his parallel interest in the history of the Arabs, pitting the lineage-based ideology of Arab rebels against the Mamluk elite of manumitted slaves. Over the past century, the Bayan has been repeatedly deployed in public debates about the Arab identity of Egypt. This book offers a critical study of the treatise in its fifteenth century context, an academic edition, and a first translation into English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rapoport, Yossef

Daaïf, Lahcen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Plates and Maps

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Date and Audience

2 Structure, Contents, and Terminology

3 The Mamluk Genealogical Genre

1 Al-?Umari

4 Migration and Provincial Elites in the Bayan

1 The History of Arab Migration to Egypt

2 The Arab Rebellion of the Šarif ?i?n al-Din ?a?lab

3 Arab and Berber Provincial Elites: Awlad al-Kanz and the Hawwarah

5 The Berber Tribes

6 The Bayan and Ibn ?aldun

7 Al-Maqrizi, the Arabs, and the Bayan

8 Afterlife

1 Printed Editions

2 The Bayan in the Contemporary Arab World

9 Manuscript Copies of the Bayan (in approximate chronological order)

10 The Edition

Plates and Maps

Abbreviations and Symbols

Critical Edition and Translation of al-Maqrizi’s al-Bayan wa-l-i?rab ?an ma fi ar? Mi?r min al-a?rab

Bibliography

List of Quoted Manuscripts

Index of Names (People and Places)

Index of Technical Terms

Index of Sources in al-Bayan wa-l-i?rab ?an ma fi ar? Mi?r min al-a?rab

Facsimile of MS Or. 560 (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek), Fols.66a–77b

Über Autor(innen)

Lahcen Daaïf, Ph.D. (2004), is research fellow in Islamic studies at the laboratory of Ciham (CNRS)/Lyon 2. He has published several articles including: “A Mamluk legal document” Anlisl. (2014) and “The bara'a: reflections on the function and evolution of the structure of the receipt” AnIsl (2017).



Yossef Rapoport, Ph.D (2002), is Professor of Islamic History at Queen Mary University London. He has published on Islamic legal history, medieval Islamic maps and the peasantry of the Islamic Middle East, including Rural Economy and Tribal Society in Islamic Egypt (Brepols, 2018).