Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean: John Wansborough and the Historiography of Mediaeval Egypt -- Michael Brett 1
2. Egypt and Aleppo in Ibn al-'Adim's Bughyat al-talab fi ta'rikh Halab -- David Morray 13
3. Al-Nuwayri as a Historian of the Mongols -- Reuven Amitai 23
4. Baybars al-Mansuri's Zubdat al-Fikra -- Donald Richards 37
5. 'Ali-al-Baghdadi and the Joy of Mamluk Sex -- Robert Irwin 45
6. Representing the Mamluks in Mamluk Historical Writing -- Nasser Rabbat 59
7. l'Evolution de la composition du genre de Khitat en Egypte musulmane -- Ayman Fu'ad Sayyid 77
8. Al-Maqrizi's account of the Transition from Turkish to Circassian Mamluk Sultanate: History in the Service of Faith -- Amalia Levanoni 93
9. Al-Maqrizi and Ibn Taghri Birdi as Historians of Contemporary Events -- Irmeli Perho 107
10. Al-Biqa'i's Chronicle: a Fifteenth Century Learned Man's Reflection on his Time and World -- Li Guo 121
11. Al-Maqrizi, the Master, and Abu Hamid al-Qudsi, the Disciple - Whose Historical Writing Can Claim More Topicality and Modernity? -- Ulrich Haarmann 149
12. Disruptive "Others" as Depicted in the Chronicles of the Late Mamluk Period -- Carl F. Petry 167
13. Attitudes toward the Ottomans in Egyptian Historiography during Ottoman rule -- Michael Winter 195
14. The Egyptian-Yemeni Symbiosis as Reflected (or Unreflected) in Ottoman-era Chronicles -- Jane Hathaway 211
15. Al-Jabarti's 'Aja'ib al-athar fi al-Tarajim wa'l-akhbar and the Arabic Histories of Ottoman Egypt in the Eighteenth Century -- Daniel Crecelius 221
16. The Chronicles of Ottoman Egypt: History or Entertainment -- Nelly Hanna 237
17. Egyptian History in the Modern Egyptian Novel -- Paul Starkey 251
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