ISBN:
9789004548626
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (469 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the near and Middle East Series v.172
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.800961
Keywords:
Fatimites
;
Fatimites History
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"--
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