Maqrizi, Taqi Al-Din Ahmad Ibn Ali Al-
Maqrizi, Taqi Al-Din Ahmad Ibn Ali Al-
Born 1364, in Cairo; died there, 1442. Egyptian historiographer of the Mameluke period. He was for a time a qadi, a muhtasib, and later a schoolteacher in Cairo and Damascus. Al-Maqrizi’s chief work, Al-Khitat, and its supplements contain diverse information about the history and geography of Egypt, including biographies of emirs and other famous people, and the history of the Fatimids. Al-Maqrizi wrote a treatise on Muslim weights and measures and other works on the history of Egypt and neighboring countries.
WORKS
El-mawa’iz wa’l-i’tibarfidhikr el-khitat wa’l-Athat, vols. 1-5. Edited by G. Wiet. Cairo, 1911-27.Chronicle of Ahmad ibn’Ali al-Makrizi, Entitled Kitab al-suluk, vols. 1-2. Edited by M. Ziada. Cairo, 1936-42.
“Le Traité des famines de Maqrizi.” Translated into French by G. Wiet. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Leiden, 1962, vol. 5, pt. 1.