The approach of Meccan historian in documenting social aspects during Mamluk era

Abstract

This study aims to highlight the role of the historians of Mecca in monitoring the crimes of an important group within the Meccan society, namely the category of slaves. Did the historians of Mecca try to monitor and trace all the motives? Did their coexistence within the Meccan community make the reasons easier to understand and documented? Were the locations of the crimes recorded and recorded? And indicate the names of the slaves who committed these crimes? This is in addition to clarifying the role of political institutions and their methods in apprehending, investigating, and punishing the perpetrators, the study included four sections in addition to an introduction and a conclusion. The first topic dealt with the most famous historians of Mecca in the Mamluk era and clarifying their approach to historical writing. The second topic dealt with the crimes of the slave category such as theft, looting, killing and others. As for the third topic, it dealt with the tools of crime such as the use of sharp tools, poison, strangulation, and others, and what are the months in which the crime rate increases, based on the observation of the historians of Mecca? What are the penalties applied to the perpetrators of these crimes, and the last of them in the fourth topic traces the impact of crimes on various aspects of life? And that is through searching in the books of translations as well as the historical Hijazi sources, and finally, in this thesis, I relied on the descriptive historical method based on collecting the material from its primary sources and then analyzing it to reach the required conclusions and analyzes.

 Keywords: slaves, historians of Mecca, crimes, murder