Help believers clarifying the causes of the disaster. Kitab Igasat al-umma b-kashf al-gumma

The treatise of the Egyptian historian of the XV century. It is known as the “Chronicle of the Housing Years” and is dedicated to the history of hungry years in Egypt from antiquity to the tragic events of 14o5, which have claimed the lives of many Egyptians. The author saw his task in stateing the true causes of these disasters and suffering of people. In this monument, you can find unique facts about the high cost, hunger and epidemics that occurred in the history of Egypt, about measures to facilitate the fate of people, about the minus and financial policy of the government of medieval Egypt. Unique in their insight are al-Macrisi arguments about the causes of corruption among government officials and the mechanisms of its influence on market prices.
The book is intended for researchers of socio-economic relations in medieval Muslim society, as well as a wide range of historians and readers who are interested in relations between the state and society in the Middle Ages