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Marginality as Lens: Abū Ḥāmid al-Qudsī’s Writings and Mamluk Urbanism

This thesis takes the life and works of Abū Ḥāmid al-Qudsī (also known as al-Maqdisī), a Shāfiʿī jurist and Cairene historian who died in the late ninth/fifteenth century, as a point of entry into a central question: how was knowledge about the city produced in Mamluk Cairo? Addressing this question...

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Main Author: Lafi, Moaaz
Format: Thesis
Published: AUC Knowledge Fountain 2026
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