Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Paul Ernest 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon Ashgate Publishing 2018
Series:Variorum collected studies series
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Table of Contents:
  • Fatimid institutions of learning
  • Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate
  • The Ismaili daʻwa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim
  • Another family of Fatimid chief Qāḍīs : the al-Fāriqīs
  • A Byzantine victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971)
  • The "crusade" of John Tzimisces in the light of new Arabic evidence
  • Al- Maqrīzī and the Fatimids
  • Purloined symbols of the past : the theft of souvenirs and sacred relics in the rivalry between the Abbasids and Fatimids
  • "In praise of al- Ḥākim" : Greek elements in Ismaili writings on the Imamate
  • Abū Tammām and his Kitāb al-Shajara : a new Ismaili treatise from tenth-century Khurasan
  • An Ismaʻili version of the heresiography of the seventy-two erring sects
  • Eternal cosmos and the womb of history : time in early Ismaili thought
  • The doctrine of metempsychosis in Islam