Al-Maqrīzī’s Biography of Tīmūr
Durar al-ʿuqūd al-farīda fī tarāǧim aʿyān al-mufīda is an Arabic biographical dictionary by a famous historian of the Mamluk Sultanate, al-Maqrīzī, of his contemporaries. This recently published work contains a long biography of Tīmūr, or Tamerlane, the founder of the Timurid dynasty. In discussing...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Arabica
Year: 2015, Volume: 62, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 308-327 |
Further subjects: | B
Tīmūr
al-Maqrīzī
biographie
historiographie
sultanat mamelouk
B Tīmūr al-Maqrīzī biography historiography Mamluk Sultanate |
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Summary: | Durar al-ʿuqūd al-farīda fī tarāǧim aʿyān al-mufīda is an Arabic biographical dictionary by a famous historian of the Mamluk Sultanate, al-Maqrīzī, of his contemporaries. This recently published work contains a long biography of Tīmūr, or Tamerlane, the founder of the Timurid dynasty. In discussing the biography, this article presents some interesting and original details: first, it reviews the editions of Durar al-ʿuqūd that have been published to date; secondly, it gives an outline of Tīmūr’s biography; after that, it scrutinizes al-Maqrīzī’s sources for Tīmūr’s life and then the relations between his and other Arabic biographies of Tīmūr; lastly, it considers the value of the work. |
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ISSN: | 1570-0585 |
Contains: | In: Arabica
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341348 |