Comparing the Crisis of 806/1403–1404 and the Fatimid Fitna (450–466/1058–1073): Al‑Maqrīzī as a Historian of the Fatimids

Modern scholars often treat al‑Maqrīzī as an important, if not the most important, historian of the Fatimids, especially given the poor survival of sources from the Fatimid period, particularly for the Egyptian period of their rule. However, historians have emphasised how al‑Maqrīzī was heavily infl...

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