The Fatimids : Select Papers on Their Governing Institutions, Social and Cultural Organization, Religious Appeal, and Rivalries /

The chapters of this volume contain a series of detailed studies of various aspects of Fatimid rule in the regions of its Mediterranean and Near Eastern empire, 909 to 1171 AD, including separately the role of the imam-caliph, wazīr , chief qāḍī and dāʿī , and other political and public offices of t...

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Main Author: Walker, Paul E. (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 172.

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505 0 |t Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Institutions of Government -- 1 The Role of the Imam-caliph as Depicted in Official Treatises and Documents -- 2 Was the Fatimid Amīr al-Juyūsh in fact a Wazīr? -- 3 The Relationship between Chief Qāḍī and Chief Dāʿī -- 4 The Responsibilities of Political Office in a Shīʿī Caliphate and the Delineation of Public Duties -- 5 Kutāma, Kalbids and Other Westerners: The Maghāriba in Cairo -- 6 Egyptian Popular Festivals -- 7 Alexandria as an Entrepôt in the East-West Exchange of Islamic Scholarship -- 8 Royal Libraries and the Production of Texts -- Part 2: Society and Culture -- 9 Social Elites at the Court -- 10 The Caliph al-ʿAzīz and His Daughter Sitt Al-Mulk: A Case of Delayed but Eventual Succession to Rule by a Woman -- 11 Intellectual Currents and Traditions -- 12 Literary Culture -- 13 The Pitti Palace Rock Crystal Ewer and the Sordid Story of How and Why It Came to Exist -- 14 Al-Ḥākim and the Dhimmīs -- Part 3: Religious Appeal -- 15 The Doctrine of Ta‌ʾwīl in Fatimid Ismaili Texts -- 16 To What Degree Was Classical Ismaili Esotericism Based on Reason as Opposed to Authority? -- 17 Techniques for Guarding and Restricting Esoteric Knowledge in the Ismaili daʿwa -- 18 Science in the Service of the Fatimids and Their Daʿwa -- 19 An Ismaili Answer to the Problem of Worshiping the Unknowable, Neoplatonic God -- Part 4: Rivalries -- 20 Ismaili Polemics Against their Opponents -- 21 Islamic Ritual Preaching (Khuṭbas) in a Contested Arena: Shīʿīs and Sunnīs, Fatimids and Abbasids -- 22 Portrayals of the Umayyads in Official Pronouncements and in Daʿwa Literature -- 23 Conflict with the Ibāḍīs and the Ibāḍī Version of the Imamate in North Africa and in the East -- 24 The Abbasid-Fatimid Rivalry for Control of the Holy Cities and the Hijāzī Response -- Bibliography of Works Cited in the Text or Notes -- Index. 
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