Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine

Fatimid institutions of learning -- Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate -- The Ismaili daʿwa 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...

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1. Verfasser: Walker, Paul E. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Aldershot u.a. Ashgate 2008
Schriftenreihe:Variorum collected studies series 900
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Zusammenfassung:Fatimid institutions of learning -- Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate -- The Ismaili daʿwa 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 Ismaʿili 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
Beschreibung:Includes index
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24 cm
ISBN:0754659526
0-7546-5952-6
9780754659525
978-0-7546-5952-5