Fatimid institutions of learning -- Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate -- The Ismaili dawa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-oHakim -- Another family of Fatimid chief Qaodis : 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-oHakim" : 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.