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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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Muqarnas Online, 1985
The Fatimid caliphs who ruled Egypt from 969 to 1171 are justly famed for their generous patronage of architecture and the arts and for their lavish ceremonies. Almost immediately after they moved from North Africa, where they had ruled for half a century, to Egypt, where they founded their new capital of alQahira, men and women of the Fatimid court ...
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The Fatimid caliphs who ruled Egypt from 969 to 1171 are justly famed for their generous patronage of architecture and the arts and for their lavish ceremonies. Almost immediately after they moved from North Africa, where they had ruled for half a century, to Egypt, where they founded their new capital of alQahira, men and women of the Fatimid court ...
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Journal of Islamic Archaeology, 2016
Debates on Fatimid ivory production have traditionally focused on Egypt: many of the artefacts considered as Fatimid have been ascribed to 11th–12th century Cairo, while attributions of provenance often oscillate between Egypt and Southern Italy. This paper aims to question and to broaden this geographical and chronological frame, focusing on two ivory
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Debates on Fatimid ivory production have traditionally focused on Egypt: many of the artefacts considered as Fatimid have been ascribed to 11th–12th century Cairo, while attributions of provenance often oscillate between Egypt and Southern Italy. This paper aims to question and to broaden this geographical and chronological frame, focusing on two ivory
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2020
This chapter deals with the many rites of Rajab that were developed during the Fatimid period, especially in Cairo. Official ceremonies included caliphal audiences, processions, banquets, the distribution of food, the kindling of lights in mosques, Ismaʿili 'sessions of wisdom' (majālis al-ḥikma), and the sending off of the kiswa to Mecca.
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This chapter deals with the many rites of Rajab that were developed during the Fatimid period, especially in Cairo. Official ceremonies included caliphal audiences, processions, banquets, the distribution of food, the kindling of lights in mosques, Ismaʿili 'sessions of wisdom' (majālis al-ḥikma), and the sending off of the kiswa to Mecca.
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Fatimid Decrees, Original Documents from the Fatimid Chancery
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1966null Red, S. M. Stern
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Fatimid Decrees. Original Documents from the Fatimid Chancery
Oriens, 1967Heribert Busse, S. M. Stern
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