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The Fatimid Empire /

The Fatimid empire in North Africa, Egypt and Syria was at the centre of the political and religious history of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages, from the breakdown of the 'Abbasid empire in the tenth century, to the invasions of the Seljuqs in the eleventh and the Crusaders in the twelfth,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brett, Michael, 1934- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Colección:Edinburgh history of the Islamic empires.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of boxes
  • List of illustrations
  • Introduction: the question of empire
  • The coming of the Mahdī
  • The city of the Mahdī
  • The conquest of Egypt
  • the constitution of the state
  • The formation of the empire
  • A failure of direction: the reign of al-Ḥākim bi Amr Allāh
  • The regime of the Pen
  • The crisis of the empire
  • The Fatimid renascence
  • The reorientation of the dynasty
  • The final failure
  • Conclusion: the Fatimids in retrospect. Genealogy of Shiʻite Imāms
  • Genealogy of Fatimids
  • Bibliography
  • Index of persons
  • Index of dynasties, peoples and sects
  • Index of places
  • Index of subjects.