I. B. Tauris & Company Writing history in the medieval islamic world: the value of chronicles as archives, paperback/fozia bora

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In the 'encyclopaedic' fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, including that of the Fatimids (969-1171CE).

For in two centuries of rule over Egypt and North Africa, the Isma'ili Fatimids had left few self-generated historiographical records.

Instead, it fell to Ayyubid and Mamluk historians to represent the dynasty to posterity.

This monograph sets out to explain how later historians preserved, interpreted and re.