الأزمات الاقتصادية في مصر خلال العصر المملوكي الأول (648-754ه 1250-1382م)‎

الملخص EN

This paper deals with prices in terms of: its development causes of variation , the influence of high price on population in addition to the state policy for facing that.

The following conclusion can be summed up from the research: First: The state and the policy of its rules are influential in the economic stability or instability.

For example ,under the rule of strong rulers such as Az-Zahir Babers and An-Nasir Muhammad Bin Galwon, prices were relatively stable because of arabing the land, building bridges and arches , making gulfs ,controlling the currency, and the strong administration of the state.

However ,under the rule of the sons and the grandsons of Sultan Nasir Muhammad Ibn Galawon, the state economic condition began disturb because of weakness of administration neglection of the land and the bridges removing and appointing the men of the state and purchasing of the public professions.

Second: Prices were effected by the financial and the administrative conditions of the state , the case of the Nile with regard to the increase of or decrease of water , the policy of monopoly, inflation ,agricultural disturbance and the strong wind resulting in destruction of the agricultural sector.

Third: the high prices had sever effects on the population and the state in terms of: destruction of many towns, speading of epidemic and high rate of death, lock of security and server system, high rate of killing and spreading starvation all over the state.

Fourtt: The attempted to solve the problem of high price by specifying prices , opening the stores of the state, tight control of princes' stores, and non purchasing but under supervision of the state inspector and the formal price, and distribution of the poor between princes and rich to decrease famines.

Fifth: Some change was made regarding the Nile irrigation system in the last part of the First Mamluky era.

For the irrigation of the whole agricultural lands, water level of the Nile should be between eighteen to twenty cubits as seventeen cubits were insufficient in irrigation and the eighteen or the twenty had no side effects and danger on crops.

All of this happened as a result of neglecting bridges and canals.