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’Abbasids, Fatimids and Seljuqs
2004In the course of the tenth century, his Fatimid dynasty had risen to power, first in North Africa and then in Egypt and Syria, while the original Arab empire under the older 'Abbasids dynasty of caliphs had finally disintegrated under the weight of its own excessive taxation.
M. Brett
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Fatimids Fighting over Jerusalem: An Interreligious or Intrareligious Matter?
, 2020This study presents an Islamic vision of Jerusalem marked not so much by interreligious conflict but by intrareligious or sectarian concern. It does so by reexamining the decision of the Ismāʿīlī Fāṭimid caliph al-Ḥākim to destroy the Church of the Holy ...
S. Gertz
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Annales islamologiques
Modern scholars often treat al‑Maqrīzī as an important, if not the most important, historian of the Fatimids, especially given the poor survival of sources from the Fatimid period, particularly for the Egyptian period of their rule.
Mathew Barber
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Modern scholars often treat al‑Maqrīzī as an important, if not the most important, historian of the Fatimids, especially given the poor survival of sources from the Fatimid period, particularly for the Egyptian period of their rule.
Mathew Barber
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2023
Chapter 2 examines local factors that led to the deterioration of Fatimid authority in bilad al-sham between 1050-1128. It questions the traditional interpretation that the erosion of Fatimid dominions in al-sham was provoked by the emergence of Seljuq rulers from 1071 onwards, advocating instead that the Egyptian defeat to Mirdasid forces at the ...
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Chapter 2 examines local factors that led to the deterioration of Fatimid authority in bilad al-sham between 1050-1128. It questions the traditional interpretation that the erosion of Fatimid dominions in al-sham was provoked by the emergence of Seljuq rulers from 1071 onwards, advocating instead that the Egyptian defeat to Mirdasid forces at the ...
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Fatimid Institutions of Learning *
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 1997perspective, generally receive recognition for the founding of Cairo and for the glory of having established the oldest continuously operating university in the world, al-Azhar. But, in the course of various exaggerations about al-Azhar, Fatimid institutions of learning have become disconnected from the meager evidence for them in the surviving ...
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Jewish History, 2019
The Cairo Geniza preserved thousands of Arabic-script texts, among them documents from the Fatimid and Ayyubid government administration. This essay offers a brief overview of the state document corpus from the Geniza. It also surveys previous scholarship on the documents, attempting to push the material further in two ways: by reading it as evidence ...
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The Cairo Geniza preserved thousands of Arabic-script texts, among them documents from the Fatimid and Ayyubid government administration. This essay offers a brief overview of the state document corpus from the Geniza. It also surveys previous scholarship on the documents, attempting to push the material further in two ways: by reading it as evidence ...
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Jewish History, 2019
The Cairo Geniza preserved hundreds of Arabic-script petitions to officials at the Fatimid palace. These petitions are more elaborate than those written during the rule of earlier Islamic dynasties. This essay asks three questions about Fatimid petitions and their development: Who were the scribes who wrote them?
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The Cairo Geniza preserved hundreds of Arabic-script petitions to officials at the Fatimid palace. These petitions are more elaborate than those written during the rule of earlier Islamic dynasties. This essay asks three questions about Fatimid petitions and their development: Who were the scribes who wrote them?
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Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe, 1951
Greg Robert Hyde. 2° Coupole fatimide. In: Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe. Fascicule 39, exercice 1941-1945, 1951. p. 314.
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Greg Robert Hyde. 2° Coupole fatimide. In: Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe. Fascicule 39, exercice 1941-1945, 1951. p. 314.
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