The 11th (A.H.4th) century when the Seljukites emerged in the historical scene was an era of sectarian conflict in the region where they began to expand. This led the Seljukites to adapt a regional policy such as supporting the majority Sunnis against
Cağfer Karadaş
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Transmitting sunnī learning in Fāṭimid Egypt: the female voices [PDF]
In this paper I propose to investigate the contribution of women as transmitters of Sunnī learning in Egypt under the Fāṭimids as part of a broader project I am conducting on the intellectual history of Sunnism in Fāṭimid Egypt.
Cortese, D., Cortese, D.
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Economic Reasons and Causes for Inclination towards the Fatimids in al ه Ifrighiyyah and al ه Maghrib [PDF]
Many reasons and causes led to the establishment of the Fatimid Khilafah in al ه Ifrighiyyah )Muslim Africa( in 792 AH. Among all such reasons, economic ones have not been taken very seriously by historians though the significance of such causes is by no
Mohammad Ali Chelongar
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The Relationship Between Chief Qāḍī And Chief Dā'Ī Under The Fatimids
In his various descriptions of the ranks in Fatimid administration, the Mamluk-era historian al-Maqrīzī noted the special importance of two in particular, the offices respectively of chief qāḍī and of chief dāʿī .
P. Walker
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Transmitting Sunni learning in Fatimid Egypt: the female voices [PDF]
In this chapter I propose to investigate the contribution of women as transmitters of Sunnī learning in Egypt under the Fāṭimids as part of a broader project I am conducting on the intellectual history of Sunnism in Fāṭimid Egypt.
Cortese, D., Cortese, D.
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Fatimid Secular Architecture: a Visual Reconstruction
The Fatimid dynasty was established in the Tenth century in what is modern day Tunis. Their capital was founded in the city of Al-Mahdya from which they expand- ed their realm to encompass North Africa and Egypt.
Ahmed Wahby, Mona A. Marie
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Byzantine Reconquista (10th–11th Centuries) and the Attacks on Christians in the Lands of Islam (Egypt, Syria and Iraq) [PDF]
The paper discusses a wave of attacks on Christians in the lands of Islam that accompanied Byzantine victories on the battlefield in 10th–11th centuries, including pogroms and attacks in the capital of Egypt, Antioch, Alexandria, and Daqūqā’, which were ...
Maciej Czyż
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Lost and found: the Sarguẕasht-i Sayyid-nā. Facts and fiction of Ḥasan-i Ṣabbāḥ’s travel to Egypt vis-à-vis the political and intellectual life of 5th/11th century Fāṭimid Cairo [PDF]
In the year AH 469/1076 CE, a still young and recently initiated to Ismailism Ḥasan-i Ṣabbāḥ (d. AH 518/1124 CE) reportedly left the city of Rayy in Iran to embark on a journey that was to take him to the Fatimid capital, al-Qāhira.Ḥasan's experience in ...
Cortese, D., Cortese, D.
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The soft power of inter-religious learning: negotiating transregional exchanges at the fifth/eleventh-century Fāṭimid court* [PDF]
While firmly ruling over Egypt (358/969–567/1171) the Fāṭimids’ hold on Syria and Palestine remained intermittent. Owing to limited extant sources, the history of their administration of that region is fragmentarily known. For the period before 462/1070,
Cortese, D., Cortese, D.
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Representing the second largest Shīʿī Muslim community after the Ithnāʿasharīs, or Twelver Shīʿīs, the Ismāʿīlīs have had a complex history dating back to the formative period of Islam.
Farhad Daftary
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