Ighathat al-Umma bi Kashf al-Ghumma (Aiding the Nation by Dispelling Its Distress)
A treatise by Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi (d. 845 AH) on the history of famines and high prices in Egypt. In it he analyzes the causes of the economic crisis of his time and links it to the corruption of the monetary system and the abundance of copper fulus. It is one of the earliest works of monetary thought.
Al-Maqrizi (Taqi al-Din)