The Story of Medieval Egypt: al-Maqrizi's Topographical History

FAIN: RL-20240-82

University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141)
Karl Stowasser (Project Director: July 1981 to October 1990)

To support completion of a scholarly edition containing an annotated translation of Al-Maqrizi's KHITAB (1420), a history and topography of medieval Egypt valuable to scholars of Islamic, medieval, art and church history, as well as archaeologists and socio-cultural anthropologists.