Fozia Bora is a lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Leeds, where she is also the director of postgraduate research in Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Cambridge Muslim College. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and was recently awarded the Royal Asiatic Society’s Staunton Prize for ‘outstanding work by an early-career scholar’.

This is a truly impressive piece of scholarship. Bora’s recreation of the intellectual milieu in which Ibn al-Furat and his peers operated is both persuasive and thought-provoking.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of IllustrationsNote on Terminology, Transliteration and DatesIntroduction1 The Archival Function of Historiography2 An exemplary chronicle as archive: Ibn al-Fura¯t’s Ta’rikh al-duwal wa ’l-muluk3 Fatimid Archivalia: Narratives and Documents in Late Fatimid Egypt4 Mamluk Archivalities: Late Fatimid History in Ibn al-Furat’s Chronicle5 A Micro-Historical Analysis of Ibn al-Furat’s Archive (Part 1): Two Fatimid Vizierates6 A Micro-Historical Analysis of Ibn al-Furat’s Archive (Part 2): Fatimid Caliphs and Viziers to the Rise of ?ala? al-Din7 Concluding Remarks: The Value of Chronicles as ArchivesAppendicesBibliography

Fozia Bora is a lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Leeds, where she is also the director of postgraduate research in Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Cambridge Muslim College. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and was recently awarded the Royal Asiatic Society’s Staunton Prize for ‘outstanding work by an early-career scholar’.

This is a truly impressive piece of scholarship. Bora’s recreation of the intellectual milieu in which Ibn al-Furat and his peers operated is both persuasive and thought-provoking.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of IllustrationsNote on Terminology, Transliteration and DatesIntroduction1 The Archival Function of Historiography2 An exemplary chronicle as archive: Ibn al-Fura¯t’s Ta’rikh al-duwal wa ’l-muluk3 Fatimid Archivalia: Narratives and Documents in Late Fatimid Egypt4 Mamluk Archivalities: Late Fatimid History in Ibn al-Furat’s Chronicle5 A Micro-Historical Analysis of Ibn al-Furat’s Archive (Part 1): Two Fatimid Vizierates6 A Micro-Historical Analysis of Ibn al-Furat’s Archive (Part 2): Fatimid Caliphs and Viziers to the Rise of ?ala? al-Din7 Concluding Remarks: The Value of Chronicles as ArchivesAppendicesBibliography

Fozia Bora is a lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Leeds, where she is also the director of postgraduate research in Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Cambridge Muslim College. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and was recently awarded the Royal Asiatic Society’s Staunton Prize for ‘outstanding work by an early-career scholar’.

This is a truly impressive piece of scholarship. Bora’s recreation of the intellectual milieu in which Ibn al-Furat and his peers operated is both persuasive and thought-provoking.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of IllustrationsNote on Terminology, Transliteration and DatesIntroduction1 The Archival Function of Historiography2 An exemplary chronicle as archive: Ibn al-Fura¯t’s Ta’rikh al-duwal wa ’l-muluk3 Fatimid Archivalia: Narratives and Documents in Late Fatimid Egypt4 Mamluk Archivalities: Late Fatimid History in Ibn al-Furat’s Chronicle5 A Micro-Historical Analysis of Ibn al-Furat’s Archive (Part 1): Two Fatimid Vizierates6 A Micro-Historical Analysis of Ibn al-Furat’s Archive (Part 2): Fatimid Caliphs and Viziers to the Rise of ?ala? al-Din7 Concluding Remarks: The Value of Chronicles as ArchivesAppendicesBibliography