Makrizi, Taki-ed-din Ahmed el-, greatest Arabic historian of Egypt, born at Cairo; studied philosophy and theology, and in 1385 won the green turban; occupied several political and ecclesiastical offices; went to Damascus in 1408, but returning to Cairo devoted himself to history, and published among other works an important “History of Egypt and Cairo” (1364-1442).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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