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The Fatimids : select papers on their governing institutions, social and cultural organization, religious appeal, and rivalries
- Title
- The Fatimids : select papers on their governing institutions, social and cultural organization, religious appeal, and rivalries / by Paul E. Walker.
- Author
- Walker, Paul Ernest, 1941-
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
- ©2023
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- Description
- vii, 459 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section one: The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 172
- Uniform Title
- Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; volume 172.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-420) and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in English, with scattered Arabic.
- Contents
- Introduction -- pt. I. Institutions of government. -- The role of the Imam-caliph as depicted in official treatises and documents -- Was the Fatimid Amīr al-Juyūsh in fact a Wazīr? -- The relationship between Chief Qāḍī and Chief Dāʿī -- The responsibilities of political office in a Shīʿī Caliphate and the delineation of public duties -- Kutāma, Kalbids and other westerners : the Maghāriba in Cairo -- Egyptian popular festivals -- Alexandria as an entrepôt in the East-West exchange of Islamic scholarship -- Royal libraries and the production of texts -- pt. II. Society and culture. -- Social elites at the court -- The Caliph al-ʿAzīz and his daughter Sitt Al-Mulk : a case of delayed but eventual succession to rule by a woman -- Intellectual currents and traditions -- Literary culture -- The Pitti Palace rock crystal ewer and the sordid story of how and why it came to exist -- Al-Ḥākim and the Dhimmīs -- pt. III. Religious appeal. -- The doctrine of Taʼwīl in Fatimid Ismaili texts -- To what degree was classical Ismaili esotericism based on reason as opposed to authority? -- Techniques for guarding and restricting esoteric knowledge in the Ismaili daʿwa -- Science in the service of the Fatimids and their Daʿwa -- An Ismaili answer to the problem of worshiping the unknowable, neoplatonic God -- pt. IV. Rivalries. -- Ismaili polemics against their opponents -- Islamic ritual preaching (Khuṭbas) in a contested arena : Shīʿīs and Sunnīs, Fatimids and Abbasids -- Portrayals of the Umayyads in official pronouncements and in Daʿwa literature -- Conflict with the Ibāḍīs and the Ibāḍī version of the Imamate in North Africa and in the East -- The Abbasid-Fatimid rivalry for control of the Holy Cities and the Hijāzī response.
- Call Number
- JFE 24-1381
- ISBN
- 9789004548619
- 9004548610
- 9789004548626 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023024168
- OCLC
- 1380458857
- Author
- Walker, Paul Ernest, 1941- author.
- Title
- The Fatimids : select papers on their governing institutions, social and cultural organization, religious appeal, and rivalries / by Paul E. Walker.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section one: The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 172Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; volume 172.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-420) and index.
- Language
- Text in English, with scattered Arabic.
- Chronological Term
- To 1498
- Other Form:
- Online version: Walker, Paul Ernest, 1941- Fatimids Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] 9789004548626 (DLC) 2023024169
- Research Call Number
- JFE 24-1381