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Paperback. Demy 8vo. In Turkish. 258 p. Et-tuhfetu'l-mülûkiyye fi'd-devleti't-Türkiyye: Türk devleti konusunda sultânlara armagan, (1252-1312). Baybars al-Mansuri (Rukn ad-Din Baybars ad-Dawadar al-Man?uri al-Kha?a?i), (?-1325). He was purchased from the prince of Mosul in c. 1260 and participated in several of Qalawun's campaigns during the reign of sultan Baibars. In 1284, he was given command of fifty horsemen. In 1287, he was appointed governor of Al Karak, a post which he held until Qalawun's death in 1290. After his first work (a historiographical work, known as Zubdat al-fikra fi ta'rikh al-hijra; "quintessence of thought in Muslim history"), his second work, Al-Tuhfa al-mulukiyya fi l-dawla al turkiyya, is based on the Zubda and covers only the Bahri period, 1250-1325. His Zubda is a universal chronicle which ends just prior to his death, and it is by far the more informative work, but the Tuhfa contains some original content as well. Both works rely heavily on Ibn Abd al-Zahir. Both works were written with the help of the Coptic scribe Ibn Kabar.

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