Al Maqrizi

Taqi alDin Abu alAbbas Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Abd alQadir ibn Muhammad alMaqrizi , , was an Egyptian historian more commonly known as alMaqrizi or Makrizi. Although he was a Mamlukera historian and himself a Sunni Muslim, he is remarkable in this context for his unusually keen interest in the Ismaili Fatimid dynasty and its role in Egyptian history.

Maqrizi was born in Cairo and spent most of his life in Egypt, where he was trained in the Hanifite school of law. Later, he switched to the Shafiite school and finally to the Zahirite school. Maqrizi studied theology under one of the primary masterminds behind the Zahiri Revolt, and his vocal support and sympathy with that revolt against the Mamluks likely cost him higher administrative and clerical positions with the Mamluk regime. The name Maqrizi was an attribution to a quarter of the city of Baalbek, from where his paternal grandparents hailed. Maqrizi confessed to his contemporaries that he believed that he was related to the Fatimids through the son of alMuizz. Ibn Hajar preserves the most memorable account his father, as they entered the alHakim Mosque one day, told him My son, you are entering the mosque of your ancestor. However, his father also instructed alMaqrizi not to reveal this information to anyone he could not trust Walker concludes

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