Kitab Badaiuz Zuhur Pdf - Updated

Allamah Muhammad bin Abdurrahman al-Suyuti (1445-1505 CE)

(1448–ca. 1524), providing an invaluable eyewitness account of the late Mamluk Sultanate and the Ottoman conquest of Egypt. Essential Book Features Historical Scope kitab badaiuz zuhur pdf updated

Ibn Iyas was not a Sultan or a General. He was a civil servant, a Circassian Mamluk by heritage, but a scholar by trade. He lived in the quarter of Bab al-Zuhuma. He was a man who loved his city, its gardens, its poetry, and its peculiarities. For years, he had been writing a massive history of the Mamluks, starting from their origins. He called it Bada'i al-Zuhur fi Waqa'i al-Duhur —roughly translated as "The Marvellous Flowers of the Events of Ages." a Circassian Mamluk by heritage