ASIAN STUDIES. AFRICAN STUDIES.
Issue 1, 2014
CONTENTS
| Section | HISTORY AND SOURCE STUDIES | ||
| Codes UDC | 94 | Page | 35-43 |
| Title | Arabic sources on the history of Egypt under Mamluks at the manuscript�sdepartment of the Berlin State Library | ||
| Author 1 | Iliushina Milana Yu. | St.Petersburg State University 199034, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation candidate of historical sciences, associate professor e-mail: aspirant_vf@mail.ru |
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| Summary | The manuscript�s department of the Berlin State Library covers a wide range of different sources. Some of them are of particular interest. The article includes a description of unpublished anonymous work �A book of purls�. The first part of this Book is a brief history of Bahri sultans (1250-1382), in the second part one can find some practical legal advice, while the third is a panegyric, written especially for sultan Barquq (1382-1399). An ingenious urjuza on the mamluk sultans was composed by Shams al-Din Khatib in the period of rule of sultan Barsbay (1422-1438) and then continued by a nephew of Shams al-Din Khatib, Muhammad al-Ba�uni in two more ur juza� s. The �threlogy� is an autograph of Muhammad al-Ba�uni, written in the third quarter of 16th century. In a work titled �The sun of Magrib� of Badr al-Din al-Damimini (1362-1425) there are copies of documents and letters giving some information not mentioned in well-known chronicles. Some treaties on furusiyya are described and partly translated. The most important ones are unpublished texts, which have not been studied before. | ||
| Keywords | arabic manuscripts, mamluks, Egypt. | ||