The Fatimid caliphate : diversity of traditions / edited by Farhad Daftary and Shainool Jiwa

Published:: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2018.
Copyright Date:: ©2018
Physical Description:: xiii, 250 pages ; 22 cm.
Additional Creators:: Daftary, Farhad and Jiwa, Shainool

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Series:

Ismaili heritage series ; 14

Contents:

Introduction / Farhad Daftary and Shainool Jiwa -- The early Ismaili Imamate : background to the establishment of the Fatimid Caliphate / Farhad Daftary -- The Baghdad manifesto (402/1011) : a re-examination of Fatimid-Abbasid rivalry / Shainool Jiwa -- Was the Fatimid Amīr al-Juyūsh in fact a Wazīr? / Paul E. Walker -- 'Leading from the middle' : Qāḍī al-Nu'mān on female prayer leadership / Simonetta Calderini -- Al-Ṭurṭūshī and the Fatimids / Maribel Fierro -- Transmitting Sunni learning in Fatimid Egypt : the female voices / Delia Cortese -- The Fatimid legacy and the foundation of the modern Nizārī Ismaili Imamate / Daniel Beben.

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ISBN:

9781788311335
1788311337

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217 - 237) and index

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2017

Endowment Note:

Paterno Libraries Endowment

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