عنوان

Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Ashgate/Variorum

Other Title Information

Variorum collected studies series

Other Title Information

CS900

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Paul E. Walker

Text of Note

Fatimid institutions of learning -- Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate -- The Ismaili dawa 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 )179( -- 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

Entry Element

History ، Fatimites

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Historiography ، Fatimites

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Doctrines ، Ismailites

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Greek influences ، Philosophy, Islamic

Class number

Dates

1491-

Entry Element

Walker, Paul Ernest

Relator Code

AU

TI

SE

SE Collected studies