Ismaili and Fatimid studies in honor of Paul E. Walker / edited by Bruce D. Craig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walker, Paul Ernest, 1941-

Craig, Bruce D.

Series:

Chicago studies on the Middle East

Chicago studies on the middle east

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Ismailites--History.

Ismailites.

History.

Fatimites--History.

Fatimites.

Physical Description:

xix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Middle East Documentation Center, 2010.

Language Note:

Engish and Arabic.

Contents:

Hidden imams and mahdis in Ismaili history / Farhad Daftary

Kawn al-ʻalam: the cosmogony of the Ismaʻili daʻi Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Nasafi / Wilferd Madelung

Maqriziana XII. evaluating the sources for the Fatimid period: Ibn al-Maʻmun al-Baṭāiḥī's history and its use by al-Maqrizi (with a critical edition of his résumé for the years 501-515 a.h.) / Frédéric Bauden

Sources for al-Qaḍi al-Nuʻman's works and their authenticity / Ismail K. Poonawala

Was Naṣir-e Khusraw a great poet and only a minor philosopher? Some critical reflections on his doctrine of the soul / Daniel De Smet

A Shiʻi-Muʻtazili poem of al-Ṣaḥib b. ʻAbbad (d. 385/995) / Maurice A. Pomerantz

An illustration of the Caliph al-Ḥakim together with his astronomer/astrologer Ibn Yunus / David A. King

The Almohads and the Fatimids / Maribel Fierro

Church building, repair, and destruction in Fatimid Egypt / Marlis J. Saleh

Urban violence at Baghdad in the rivalry between the Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates / Abbas Hamdani.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

097081996X

9780970819963

OCLC:

657223824

Publisher Number:

99953631138