The Fatimids: Select Papers on Their Governing Institutions, Social and Cultural Organization, Religious Appeal, and Rivalries

by Paul Walker

The chapters of this volume contain a series of detailed studies of various aspects of Fatimid rule in the regions of its Mediterranean and Near Eastern empire, 909 to 1171 AD, including separately the role of the imam-caliph, wazīr, chief qāḍī and dāʿī, and other political and public offices of this Shīʿī caliphate. Geographically it covers North Africa, Sicily, the Levant, Hijaz,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004548610
• ISBN13: 9789004548619
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 468 Pages