Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paul E. Walker.
• Authors: Walker, Paul Ernest, 1941-
• Contents: Contents: Introduction; Fatimid institutions of learning; Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate; The Ismaili da'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: an new Ismaili treatise from 10th-century Khurasan; An Isma'ili version of the heresiography of the 72 erring sects; Eternal cosmos and the womb of history: time in early Ismaili thought; The doctrine of metempsychosis in Islam; Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 956.013; Fatimites -- History; Fatimites -- Historiography; Ismailites -- Doctrines; Islamic philosophy -- Greek influences
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000949919
• Related ISBNs: 9781000943276
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