Critical Edition, Annotated Translation and Introduction by Mayte Penelas.
This volume contains the edition and translation of the chapter of al-Maqrīzī’s 'al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar' dealing with Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths. This chapter is, for the most part, an almost exact reproduction of Ibn Ḫaldūn’s 'Kitāb al-ʿIbar', from which al-Maqrīzī derived material from many other sources, including prominent Christian sources such as 'Kitāb Hurūšiyūš', Ibn al-ʿAmīd’s 'History', and works by Muslim historians like Ibn al-Aṯīr’s 'Kāmil'. Therefore, this chapter of 'al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar' is a continuation of the previous Arabic historiographical tradition, in which European history is integrated into world history through the combination of Christian and Islamic sources.
Author(s): Al-Maqrīzī, Mayte Penelas (ed., transl.)
Series: Bibliotheca Maqriziana. Opera maiora, 7
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2021
Language: English, Arabic
Pages: 444
City: Leiden
Preface
Plates
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Al-Maqrīzī’s 'Kitāb al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar'
2. Contents, with a Mention of the Sources, of the Section of 'al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar' on the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths
3. On the Sources of This Section of 'al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar'
3.1. Ibn Ḫaldūn
3.2. Harūšiyūš/Orosius (KH)
3.3. Ibn al-ʿAmīd
3.4. Al-Masʿūdī and Ibn al-Aṯīr
3.5. Minor Firsthand Sources
4. Manuscripts Transmitting Volume 5 of 'al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar'
4.1. MS Fatih 4340 (F), Holograph
4.2. MSS Aya Sofya 3366 (A) and Ahmet III 2926/5 (T)
4.3. MS Algiers, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1589 (Ǧ)
5. The 2013 Edition
6. Present Edition and Translation
7. Appendix: Note on the Franks
Plates
Abbreviations and Symbols
Critical Edition and Translation of al-Maqrīzī’s 'al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar' كتاب الخبر عن البشر The History of Mankind Volume V, section 6 The Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths
An account of the empire of the Yūnān and the Rūm
On the empire of the Yūnān
On the Latins, who are the Kittīm, known as the Rūm, one of the nations of the Yūnān
On the rule of the Caesars, who are Kittīm, i.e., Latins
On the Caesars who professed Christianity
On the rule of the Caesars during the Islamic period until their end
On the appropriation by the Franks of the kingdoms of the Rūm
On the Goths, kings of al-Andalus
Appendix
History of the Franks
Bibliography
List of Quoted Manuscripts
Index of Quoted Titles in 'al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar'
Index of Sources in 'al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar'
Index of Glosses
Index of Names
Index of Collectivities
Index of Places
Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), Fols. 233a–264b
