TAKI-ED-DIN AHMED EL-MAKRIZI

TAKI-ED-DIN AHMED EL-MAKRIZI (1364-1442), 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".