تاريخ فاطميان از ديدگاه تقي الدين مقريزي

The Fatimid History from the Point of View of Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi

Taqi al-Din Ahmad al-Maqrizi (766-845 II) was a prominent Egyptian historian who wrote widely on various issues of Islamic and particularly Egyptian history and culture. In his various researches, he worked on different aspects of the history of the Fatimid Caliphs, from the fourth to sixth centuries Hijri. In his a\-Khitat and Etteʹaaz al-Honafa, he explored the administrative and cultural system of Egypt and their development, providing the reader with valuable and first-hand information about the history of Egypt, under the Faiimids. In this paper, the author examines certain factors that may have influenced Maqriziʹs account of history, such as his connections and sympathy with Ismaili Fatimid Caliphs. Maqriziʹs used first hand sources of the Ismaili faith, but so far as the complexity of their teachings allowed him; and when anti-Fatimid feelings of his own time rose, he did not follow his works on the Fatimid caliphate and the Ismaili movement. Having a critical approach, the translator of this paper, whose original title is "Maqrizi and the Fatimids", explains more extensively some important points that are mentioned by the author only briefly.