Relief of the nation by revealing the cloud

What happened to the high prices in the Ayyubid state? It was caused by the Nile's stopping its increase, and its shortcomings from the usual So people from the villages came to Cairo from hunger, and the spring season entered, and the wind blew, followed by an epidemic and annihilation, and a lack of food until people ate the young of Adam's children. The father used to eat his son grilled and cooked out of hunger, and the woman eats her son... Then the matter increased until the food of many people became the flesh of the sons of Adam, so that they fed it, and they were prevented from it because of the lack of food from all the grains and all the vegetables and everything that the earth grows. "

An interesting and important book, in which al-Maqrizi, one of the most important historians of Egypt, deals with the history of the famines that afflicted Egypt from the earliest times until the beginning of the ninth century AH (fifteenth century AD), at the time of writing this book, and then analyzes in a smooth scientific manner in later chapters the causes of famines and ways to cure them.