标题：It Has No Root Among Any Community That Believes in Revealed Religion, Nor Legal Foundation for Its Implementation": Placing al-Maqrizi's Comments on Money in a Wider Context
出版社：Middle East Documentation Center (MEDOC), University of Chicago
摘要：It is certainly nothing new to state that the works of al-Maqr|z| have been one of the most important sets of resources used by scholars of the economic and monetary history of the medieval Middle East in general, and for the Mamluks in particular. His short treatises Igha≠thah and Shudhu≠r are well known for their focus on economic matters, and his chronicle the Sulu≠k and topographical work the Khit¸at¸, among others, also reflect the author's concern with these issues.1 As a result, one can scarcely pick up an article or chapter about Islamic money without finding the obligatory reference to Sauvaire's nineteenth-century compilation of monetary and metrological citations, which contains more references to the works of al- Maqr|z| than any other author.2 When it comes to the history of Mamluk Egypt, the reliance is even greater. This is clear if we examine the nuts and bolts of Mamluk monetary research. Citations to al-Maqr|z|'s many works are common in the "Currency" section of William Popper's Systematic Notes to Ibn Taghrî Birdî's Chronicles of Egypt.3 Paul Balog
