The Fatimid Empire by Brett, Michael 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the question of empire -- The coming of the Mahdi -- The city of the Mahdi -- The conquest of Egypt -- The constitution of the state -- The formation of the empire -- A failure of direction; the reign of al-Hakim bi Amr Allah -- The regime of the Pen -- The crisis of the empire -- The Fatimid renascence -- The reorientation of the dynasty -- The final failure -- Conclusion: the Fatimids in retrospect…”

The Fatimids and Egypt / by Brett, Michael, 1934-

Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine by Walker, Paul Ernest 1941-

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…”

Between revolution and state the path to Fatimid statehood : Qadi Al-Nuʻman and the construction of Fatimid legitimacy by Hamdani, Sumaiya Abbas

Art, trade and culture in the Islamic world and beyond from the Fatimids to the Mughals

A history of Palestine, 634-1099 by Gil, Moshe 1921-

Table of Contents: “…Fatimid advance northwards (a). Fatimid retreat (a). …”

The sword of ambition bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt /œcAbū ʻAmr ʻUthmān ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi al-Miṣrī ; edited and translated by Luke B. Yarbrough ; Foreword by Sherma... by Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm active 1235

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Letter from the General Editor -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- Notes to the Introduction -- The Sword of Ambition -- Notes -- The Fatimid Caliphs in Egypt -- The Ayyubid Sultans in Egypt -- Glossary of Names and Terms -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- About this E-book -- Titles Published by the Library of…”

Mediaeval Ismaʻili history and thought

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Isma'ilis and Isma'ili studies / Farhad Daftary -- The Fatimids and the Qarmatis of Bahrayn / Wilferd Madelung -- The cosmology of the pre-Fatimid Isma'iliyya / Heinz Halm -- Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani and the seven faculties of the Intellect / Wilferd Madelung -- The Isma'ili oath of allegiance ('abd) and the 'sessions of wisdom' (majalis al-hikma) in Fatimid times / Heinz Halm -- Al-Qadi al-Nu'man and Isma'ili jurisprudence / Ismail K. …”

Court cultures in the Muslim world seventh to nineteenth centuries

Table of Contents: “…Social elites at the Fatimid court -- 7. Courts, capitals and kingship: Delhi and its sultans in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE -- 8. …”

The master and the disciple an early Islamic spiritual dialogue : Arabic edition and English translation of Jaʻfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman's Kitāb al-ʻĀlim wa'l-ghulām by Jaʻfar ibn Manṣūr al-Yaman 10th cent

Continuity and change in the realms of Islam studies in honour of Professor Urbain Vermeulen