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The Fatimids : select papers on their governing institutions, social and cultural organization, religious appeal, and rivalries /

"The chapters of this volume contain a series of detailed studies of various aspects of Fatimid rule in the regions of its Mediterranean and Near Eastern empire, 909 to 1171 AD, including separately the role of the imam-caliph, wazir, chief qadi and da i, and other political and public offices...

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Main Author: Walker, Paul Ernest, 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Arabic
Language Notes:Text in English, with scattered Arabic.
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
Series:Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; volume 172.
Subjects:
Fatimites.
Fatimites > History.
Fatimites > Intellectual life.
Islamic civilization.
Egypt > History.
Africa > History > To 1498.
Fātimides.
Fātimides > Histoire.
Fatimid.
Fatimites
History
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Summary:"The chapters of this volume contain a series of detailed studies of various aspects of Fatimid rule in the regions of its Mediterranean and Near Eastern empire, 909 to 1171 AD, including separately the role of the imam-caliph, wazir, chief qadi and da i, and other political and public offices of this Shi i caliphate. Geographically it covers North Africa, Sicily, the Levant, Hijaz, Cairo and Egypt in the medieval period, with special attention to books, science and libraries, court society, festivals, intellectual traditions and Ismaili doctrines, its religious appeal, military, enemies and rivals, among them the Abbasids, Umayyads, and Ibadis"--Back cover.
Physical Description:vii, 459 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-420) and index.
ISBN:9789004548619
9004548610
ISSN:0169-9423 ;