Founding the Fatimid state : the rise of an early Islamic empire : an annotated English translation of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān's Iftitāḥ al-Daʻwa / by Hamid Haji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nuʻmān ibn Muḥammad, Abū Ḥanīfah, -974.

Contributor:

Haji, Hamid, 1945-

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Ismaili texts and translations series (Institute of Ismaili Studies) ; 6.

Ismaili texts and translations series ; 6

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Fatimid family.

History.

Islamic Empire--History--Sources.

Islamic Empire.

Yemen (Republic)--History--Sources.

Yemen (Republic).

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xvii, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; London : In Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies ; New York : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 2006.

Language Note:

Translated into English.

Summary:

This is an annotated English translation of Qadi al-Nu'man's "Iftitah" "al-de' wa." This book is the most important primary source for the emergence of the Fatimid state in the early years of the tenth century. Its author, Qadi al-Nu'man, was an official historian of the Fatimids and an eminent exponent of Ismaili jurisprudence--as well being perhaps the most distinguished and creative of all the Fatimid thinkers. The "Iftitah" is al-Nu'man's major historical work, and records in detail the background to the establishment of the Fatimid state, first in Yemen and then in north Africa. It is based on official archival and biographical documents that were accessible to the author at the time, and which have not survived.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1850438854

OCLC:

60838378

Publisher Number:

9781850438854 (hbk.)