ISBN:
9789004548619
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 459 Seiten
Series Statement:
Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik volume 172
Series Statement:
Section 1, The Near and Middle East* / edited by Maribel Fierro (Madrid), M. S̨ükrü Hanioğlu (Princeton), D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois), Florian Schwarz (Vienna)
Series Statement:
Handbook of Oriental studies The Near and Middle East* ; volume 172
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Walker, Paul E., 1941 - The Fatimids
DDC:
305.800961
Keywords:
Fatimites
;
Fatimites History
;
Fatimidenreich
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
beinhaltet bibliographische Referenzen und Index
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