Early Mamluk Syrian Historiography: Al-Yunini’s Dhayl Mir’at Al-Zaman

This laudable work offers a study, translation and partial edition of one of the most important early Mamluk sources and its author. In addition to the work’s contribution to Mamluk history, it also makes a significant contribution towards the ultimate goal of having the key texts of early Mamluk historiography accessible to scholars.
In this first volume the life and work of al-Yūnīnī (d. 1326), the textual history of his Chronicle, its historiographic significance and textual filiation with other independent sources are presented and discussed.

Li Guo, Ph.D. (1994), Yale University, is Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago. He was educated in China, Yemen, Egypt and the USA and has published on Mamluk historiography, Arabic literature and language pedagogy.