Al-Maqrizi's al-Habar ?an al-basar. Vol. III

This section of al-Habar ?an al-basar, the last work of the fifteenth-century historian al-Maqrizi, presents an overview of the genealogies of the pre-Islamic northern Arabs, regarded as the descendants of the apical ancestor figure ?Adnan. Al-Maqrizi's text is embedded in the broader context of the genealogical tradition as a major organising principle in premodern Muslim historiography. The volu...