The Fatimid Empire / / Michael Brett.
A complete history of the Fatimids, showing the significance of the empire to Islam and the wider worldThe Fatimid empire in North Africa, Egypt and Syria was at the centre of the political and religious history of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages, from the breakdown of the ‘Abbasid empire in th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires : EHIE
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 25 B/W illustrations 2 B/W tables 8 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Boxes
- Illustrations
- Introduction: The Question of Empire
- 1. The Coming of the Mahdī
- 2. The City of the Mahdī
- 3. The Conquest of Egypt
- 3. The Conquest of Egypt
- 5. The Formation of the Empire
- 6. A Failure of Direction: The Reign of al-Óākim bi Amr Allāh
- 7. The Regime of the Pen
- 8. The Crisis of the Empire
- 9. The Fatimid Renascence
- 10. The Reorientation of the Dynasty
- 11. The Final Failure
- Conclusion: The Fatimids in Retrospect
- Genealogy of Shīʿite Imāms
- Genealogy of Fatimids
- Bibliography
- Index of Persons
- Index of Dynasties, Peoples and Sects
- Index of Places
- Index of Subjects