Fatimid institutions of learning - Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate - The Ismaili dai╜wa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim - Another family of Fatimid chief Qadis : the al-Fariqis - A Byzantine victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971) - The "crusade" of John Tzimisces in the light of new Arabic evidence - Al-Maqrizi 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-Hakim" : Greek elements in Ismaili writings on the Imamate - Abu Tammam and his Kitab al-Shajara : a new Ismaili treatise from tenth-century Khurasan - An Ismaili 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