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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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The “Fatimid” Doors of the Fakahani Mosque in Cairo
Muqarnas Online, 2008In 1969, soon after he had arrived at Harvard's Fine Arts Department, Oleg Grabar presented a paper at the international colloquium celebrating the millennium of Cairo in which he proposed a new and provocative explanation for the prominence of figurai iconography in Fatimid art.1 Following the publication of the article three years later, in the fall ...
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The Phenomenon of the Fatimid Armenians
Medieval Encounters, 1996AbstractThis study is an initial statement in support of a broader thesis concerning the contexts in which a re-evaluation of Armenian history and interactions between Armenians and Muslims can be attempted. Through a contextual study of all information, including such marginalized data as the history of the sects, obscure episodes such as the ...
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An Interpretation of Fatimid History
2004Abstract The story is told that when the Fatimid Caliph al-Mu’ izz came to Egypt, and was questioned by the representatives of the ashraf concerning his pedigree and his proofs, he half-drew his sword from his scabbard and said: “This is my pedigree,” and then scattered gold among them and added: “And these are my proofs.”1 The story is ...
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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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The Fatimid Eunuchs and their Sphere1
2019The Fatimids had followed the Abbasid tradition of using eunuchs in their caliphate, but they exceeded them in every way. The 10th -11th century could be named, the age of eunuchs. They became deputy to the caliph. Tutor to heir apparent, army commander, and de facto ruler of the realm. One do examine such impact on politics and Isma‘ili doctrine alike.
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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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’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.
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