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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

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Archives and Archival Sensibilities in Medieval Arabic Historiography

By Fozia Bora  //  December 3, 2019

In the year 1256, the first Mamluk sultan Aybak endowed a Sunni law college in old Cairo named al-Mu‘izziyya, an institution built using high-quality masonry acquired from the dilapidated Rawḍa Citadel on the Nile. A…

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