Baybars' Successors
Subtitle: Ibn Al-Fur&#257;t on Qal&#257;w&#363;n and Al-Ashraf
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780367223977
Subjects: Crusades, 13th-15th centuries; Islamic empire, history
Description: "Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405) is an understudied Mamluk historian, whose materials for the period of the later Crusades is unique. While sections of his history for the period prior to 1277 have been translated, later sections have not. His text provides both an overview and a critique of earlier historians, and supplies us with a large number of unique documents, treaties, and intimate discussions that are not to be found elsewhere. This translation provides a continuous narrative from 1277 until the assassination of al-Malik al-Ashraf in 1293, with selections from Ibn al-Furat's later entries concerning the Crusades until 1365"--