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2023
One of the most prosperous and influential dynasties of the Muslim world, the Fatimids (909–1171) were distinguished by their Imam-caliphs, who asserted religious as well as political authority in direct descent from the family of the Prophet. Their conquest of Egypt in 969 marked the inception of a burgeoning Mediterranean empire.
Shainool Jiwa
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One of the most prosperous and influential dynasties of the Muslim world, the Fatimids (909–1171) were distinguished by their Imam-caliphs, who asserted religious as well as political authority in direct descent from the family of the Prophet. Their conquest of Egypt in 969 marked the inception of a burgeoning Mediterranean empire.
Shainool Jiwa
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Al-Masāq, 2020
This book consists of a collection of formerly published essays on Egypt’s Islamic medieval history by the established British historian Michael Brett.
Valerie Gonzalez
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This book consists of a collection of formerly published essays on Egypt’s Islamic medieval history by the established British historian Michael Brett.
Valerie Gonzalez
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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.
M. 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.
M. 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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