Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine /
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Language: English
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Aldershot ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate/Variorum,
c2008.
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Collected studies ;
CS900.
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Call Number: DT173 .W352 2008
Table of Contents:
- Fatimid institutions of learning
- Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate
- The Ismaili daʻwa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim
- Another family of Fatimid chief Qāḍīs : the al-Fāriqīs
- A Byzantine victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971)
- The "crusade" of John Tzimisces in the light of new Arabic evidence
- Al-Maqrīzī 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-Ḥākim" : Greek elements in Ismaili writings on the Imamate
- Abū Tammām and his Kitāb al-Shajara : a new Ismaili treatise from tenth-century Khurasan
- An Ismaʻili 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.