Walker, Paul Ernest <br/><br/>
Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine / 
Paul E. Walker 
 - Aldershot;  Burlington, VT:  Ashgate/Variorum,  c2008. 
 - 1 v. (various pagings):  map, geneal. table;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Fatimid institutions of learning -- Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate -- The Ismaili daʻwa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim -- Another family of Fatimid chief Qāḍīs : the al-Fāriqīs -- A Byzantine victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971) -- The "crusade" of John Tzimisces in the light of new Arabic evidence -- Al-Maqrīzī 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-Ḥākim" : Greek elements in Ismaili writings on the Imamate -- Abū Tammām and his Kitāb al-Shajara : a new Ismaili treatise from tenth-century Khurasan -- An Ismaʻili 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780754659525 (alk. paper) 0754659526 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fatimites--History.<br/>Fatimites--Historiography.<br/>Ismailites--Doctrines.<br/>Islamic philosophy--Greek influences.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>956.013  / WAL/F