The author Suhailî was secretary at the Cairo Divan (Supreme Court) ca 1630. This volume on the history of Egypt includes two, originally separate works. The first part, by Ahmed ibn Hemdem Süheylî, resumes the history from the beginnings of the Ottoman occupation to 1629, while the second treats ...
Ph. d'Estailleur-Chanteraine., Includes bibliographical references., Main Heritage Shelves General, DT294.7.A3 E79 1931, Book, Item-ID: i10045594, BIB-ID: 1006362, Also issued online.
compiled about A.H. 613 (A.D. 1216) by Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Isfandiyʹar, based on the India office ms. compared with two mss. in the British museum, by Edward G. Browne. Printed for the Trustees of the "E.J.W. Gibb memorial."
introduction géographique de R. Lespès; illustration de Roger J-Irriéra., At head of title: E. Albertini, G. Marçais [et] G. Yver., "Bibliographie": p.[331]-331.
For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a "map-minded age," where incr ...
