Mughal Administration c18.s3.2

c18.s3.2

We know that Egypt under Arab rule produced a number of works written by officials which are of the highest value to a student of administration. "Musabbihi gives a wealth of official documents...... The very minute descriptions of etiquette at the Fatimid Court in Ibn Tuwair seem to be copied from a book of Court ceremonial. Ibn Mammati gives from personal knowledge rules for the diwans, and later al-'Omari a chancery-manual, the most perfect work on the latter's model being Kalkashandi's...... Finally writers like Ibn Dukmak and Ibn Dji'an use or reproduce bodily records of official surveys."—[*Encyclopædia of Islam*, ii. 22.]