Chronicles of Qalāwūn and his son al-Ashraf Khalīl

David Cook is professor of religion at Rice University, US. His areas of specialisation include early Islamic history and development, Muslim apocalyptic literature, radical Islam, historical astronomy, and Judeo-Arabic literature. His previous publications include ‘The Book of Tribulations’: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition: An Annotated Translation by Nu`aym b. Hammad al-Marwazi (2017).

Introduction; Text 1a. Ibn `Abd al-Ẓāhir, Tashrīf al-ayyām wa-l-`uṣūr fī sīrat al-Malik al-Manṣūr; Text 1b. Ibn `Abd al-Ẓāhir, al-Alṭāf al-khafiyya min al-sīra al-sharīfa al-sulṭāniyya al-malikiyya al-ashrafiyya (selections); Text 2. al-Ashraf’s treaty with Jaime II of Aragon; Text 3. al-Shafī` b. `Alī, al-Faḍl al-ma’thūr fi sīrat al-Malik al-Manṣūr (selections); Text 4a. Baybars al-Manṣūrī, Zubdat al-fikra; Text 4b. Baybars al-Manṣūrī, al-Tuḥfa al-mulūkiyya fi al-dawla al-Turkiyya; Text 4c. Baybars al-Manṣūrī, Mukhtārāt al-akhbār