Ismaili and Fatimid studies in honor of Paul E. Walker /

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Other Authors: Walker, Paul Ernest, 1941-, Craig, Bruce D.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Chicago : [Middle East Documentation Center], 2010.

Series: Chicago studies on the middle east.

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Call Number: BP195 .I8 I754 2010

Table of Contents:
  • Hidden imams and mahdis in Ismaili history /
  • Farhad Daftary
  • Kawn al-ʻalam: the cosmogony of the Ismaʻili daʻi Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Nasafi /
  • Wilferd Madelung
  • Maqriziana XII. evaluating the sources for the Fatimid period : Ibn al-Maʻmun al-Baṭāiḥī's history and its use by al-Maqrizi (with a critical edition of his résumé for the years 501-515 a.h.) /
  • Frédéric Bauden
  • Sources for al-Qaḍi al-Nuʻman's works and their authenticity /
  • Ismail K. Poonawala
  • Was Naṣir-e Khusraw a great poet and only a minor philosopher? Some critical reflections on his doctrine of the soul /
  • Daniel De Smet
  • A Shiʻi-Muʻtazili poem of al-Ṣaḥib b. ʻAbbad (d. 385/995) /
  • Maurice A. Pomerantz
  • An illustration of the Caliph al-Ḥakim together with his astronomer / astrologer Ibn Yunus /
  • David A. King
  • The Almohads and the Fatimids /
  • Maribel Fierro
  • Church building, repair, and destruction in Fatimid Egypt /
  • Marlis J. Saleh
  • Urban violence at Baghdad in the rivalry between the Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates /
  • Abbas Hamdani.