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Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate by Marina Rustow (review)

Comitatus, 2009
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The Fatimid Caliphs, the Copts, and the Coptic Church

Medieval Encounters, 2015
This paper examines the complex relations between the Fatimid rulers and their Coptic subjects, focusing on state policies and the situation in the Delta. In spite of al-Ḥākim’s persecutions of non-Muslims, Fatimid policies toward Christians and Jews can be described as non-prejudicial and surprisingly tolerant.
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A re-examination of al-Mahdī's letter to the Yemenites on the genealogy of the Fatimid caliphs

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 1983
Ever since the establishment of the Fatimid empire in the early part of the 10th century of the Christian era the origin of its rulers has been the subject of incessant discussion and polemics. This was, for the people of the time, no idle academic question, but one of immediate political importance. The defenders of the declining Abbasid state went to
Abbas Hamdani, François de Blois
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‘The Jews of this Nation’. The Co-production of Sectarian Identity in the Fatimid Caliphate, c. 1120 ad

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Shiite Sunni Struggle in the Process of the Zirid's Abandonment of the Fatimid Caliphate by Recognizing the Abbasid Caliphate

2019
İlk Kuzey Afrika fetihlerinden itibaren Berberîlerin merkezîyönetimle sıkıntılar yaşadığı bilinmektedir. Başlarda irtidat etmeye meyilliolan Berberîler, zaman içerisinde irtidattan vazgeçip muhalif siyasî-dinîfırkalara intisap etmeyi tercih ettiler. 8. yüzyılda Hâricîliğin etkili olduğuKuzey Afrika'da 10.
TAŞ, Abdullah Erdem, SANSARKAN, Yusuf
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Orations of the Fatimid Caliphs: Festival Sermons of the Ismaili Imams. Ed. and tr. Paul E. Walker

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2021
Orations of the Fatimid Caliphs: Festival Sermons of the Ismaili Imams. Ed. and tr. Paul E. Walker. Ismaili Texts and Translations Series, vol. 10. London: I. B. Tauris, with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2009. Pp. xvii + 162 + 58 (Arabic). £29.50, $51.29.
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A Shiite Caliphate in Egypt: The Fatimids

1970
The Fāṭimid caliphate, the only major Shī‘ite one in Islam,1 established itself in Tunisia in 909 as a deliberate challenge to the religious headship of the Islamic world represented by the ‘Abbāsids of Baghdād. The founder was Sa‘īd ibn-Ḥusayn, probably a descendant of the second founder of the Ismā‘īlite sect,2 the Persian ‘Abdullāh ibn-Maymūn.
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Islamic Archaeology in the Comoros: The Swahili and the Rock Crystal Trade with the Abbasid and Fatimid Caliphates

Journal of Islamic Archaeology, 2019
Dembeni was one of the largest and richest archaeological sites in East Africa during the early Islamic period. At its height, between the 9th and the 12th centuries, there was a period of intense trading activity, initially with the Abbasids in the Persian Gulf, and then with the Fatimid Caliphate in the Red Sea.
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A Concise History of the Fatimid Caliphs: A Critical Edition of a Newly Discovered Yemenite Manuscript

Shii Studies Review
Abstract This study offers a critical edition of a hitherto unknown manuscript that contains a concise history of the Fatimid caliphs.
Hassan Ansari, Ammar Jomah Falahieh Zadeh   +1 more
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The Responsibilities of Political Office in a Shi‘i Caliphate and the Delineation of Public Duties under the Fatimids

2011
The Fatimids rose to political dominion in North Africa in 909. The new caliph, al-Mahdi, was already imam of the Shici followers but, until then, he had not actually ruled a politically defined territory. However, he and his successors thereafter were both imams in the religious sense and also rulers of an empire that grew from its original base in ...
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