Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine
Paul E. Walker
طبع 1
قائمة
شناسنامه
العنوان واسم المؤلف
Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine / Paul E. Walkerبيانات النشر
آلدرشات : Ashgate/Variorum، 2008مالمواصفات الشكلية
1 v. )various pagings(: map, geneal, table.; 42 cm.الموضوع
Fatimites HistoryFatimites Historiography
Ismailites Doctrines
Philosophy, Islamic Greek influences
مسلسل
(Variorum collected studies series؛ CS900)اللغة
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references and index.
المحتويات
Fatimid institutions of learning -- Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate -- The Ismaili dawa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim -- Another family of Fatimid chief Qadis : the al-Fariqis -- A Byzantine victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971) -- The "crusade" of John Tzimisces in the light of new Arabic evidence -- Al-Maqrizi and the Fatimids -- Purloined symbols of the past : the theft of souvenirs and sacred relics in the rivalry between the Abbasids and Fatimids -- "In praise of al-Hakim" : Greek elements in Ismaili writings on the Imamate -- Abu Tammam and his Kitab al-Shajara : a new Ismaili treatise from tenth-century Khurasan -- An Ismaili version of the heresiography of the seventy-two erring sects -- Eternal cosmos and the womb of history : time in early Ismaili thought -- The doctrine of metempsychosis in Islam