One of the books of the scholar, the historian Taqi al -Din al -Maqrizi, and dealt with in this book the history of famines in Egypt and its causes, where he elaborated the talk about the economic crises and the famine that Egypt lived, to depict us what most of the groups of the Egyptian people and the masses of adversity and tragedies met, in the negligence of the rulers, who preferred most of them Stay away from the masses