Al-Maqrizi

Al-Maqrīzī (1364–1442) was a medieval Egyptian historian and biographer during the Mamluk era, known for his interest in the Fatimid era, and the earlier periods of Egyptian history. He is recognized as the most influential historian of premodern Egypt. Quotes Al-Khiṭaṭ All their men are deprived of the right testicle, and their women are deprived of the magna labia: the edges are drawn together and let heal so that, at marriage, it is necessary to make an incision convenient for the man's organ. . . . It is told that the reason for it was that after a king had defeated them in war, he made a peace-treaty and laid down among the conditions that at birth, all girls should be deprived of their breasts and the boys should be deprived of their genital organs; by so doing he intended to stop procreation among them; they accepted the conditions, but inverted the terms, so that they cut the breasts of the men and the vulva (furūj) of the women. [The Beja Country] (tr. Giovanni Vantini, 1975) Attributed Ibn Tulun, when he built his world-famous mosque in Egypt, at one end of it there was a place for ablutions and a dispensary also as annexes. The dispensary was well equipped with medicines and attendants. On Fridays there used to be a doctor on duty there so that he might attend immediately to any casualties on the occasion of this mammoth gathering. Quoted in David W. Tschanz, "The Islamic Roots of Modern Hospitals", Aramco World (1 March 2017) External links Category:Muslims from Egypt Category:Historians from Egypt Category:1364 births Category:1442 deaths Category:People from Cairo