Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine / Paul E. Walker
Material type: TextPublication details: Aldershot; Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Variorum, c2008Description: 1 v. (various pagings): map, geneal. table; 24 cmISBN: 9780754659525 (alk. paper); 0754659526 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Fatimites -- History | Fatimites -- Historiography | Ismailites -- Doctrines | Islamic philosophy -- Greek influencesDDC classification: 956.013Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 956.013 WAL/F (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P29299 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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