The Fatimid Empire

The Fatimid empire in North Africa, Egypt and Syria was at the centre of the political and religious history of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages, from the breakdown of the 'Abbasid empire in the tenth century, to the invasions of the Seljuqs in the eleventh and the Crusaders in the twelfth,...

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Main Author: Brett, Michael 1934- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2017
Series:The Edinburgh history of the Islamic empires
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