ISBN10: 9004117946, ISBN13: 9789004117945, [publisher: Leiden : Brill] Hardcover "The papers collected in this volume were given at a conference on 'The Historiography of Islamic Egypt' held in the University of St. Andrews, 28-31 August, 1997"--Page [vii]. Description: vi, 269 pages ; 25 cm. Contents: Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean : John Wansborough and the historiography of mediaeval Egypt / Michael Brett -- Egypt and Aleppo in Ibn al-Adim's Bughyat al-talab fi tarikh Halab / David Morray -- Al-Nuwayri as a historian of the Mongols / Reuven Amitai -- Baybars al-Mansuri's Zubdat al-fikra / Donald Richards -- Ali-al-Baghdadi and the joy of Mamluk sex / Robert Irwin -- Representing the Mamluks in Mamluk historical writing / Nasser Rabbat -- L'evolution de la composition du genre de Khitat en Egypte musulmane / Ayman Fuad Sayyid -- Al-Maqrizi's account of the transition from Turkish to Circassian Mamluk sultanate : history in the service of faith / Amalia Levanoni -- Al-Maqrizi and Ibn Taghri Birdi as historians of contemporary events / Irmeli Perho -- Al-Biqai's Chronicle : a fifteenth century learned man's reflection on his time and world / Li Guo -- Al-Maqrizi, the master, and Abu Hamid al-Qudsi, the disciple--whose historical writing can claim more topicality and modernity? / Ulrich Haarmann -- Disruptive "others" as depicted in the chronicles of the late Mamluk period / Carl F. Petry -- Attitudes ...