ABSTRACT
Authorities.—Abū-l-Fidā, en-Nuweyrī, Ibn-Baṭūṭa, el-Maḳrīzī, Abū-l-Maḥāsin, el-Ḳalḳashandī, Ibn-Iyās; modern: Quatremère’s Histoire des Sultans Mamlouks and Mémoires sur l’ Egypte; Weil, Geschichte der Chalifen, iv.; Lane-Poole, Art of the Saracens and Cat. Or. Coins in B.M.; Casanova, Hist. de la citadelle du Caire (Mém. miss, archéol. franç, vi.).
