35163

1941-

Paul E. Walker

Ashgate/Variorum

1 v. (various pagings) : map, geneal. table ; 24 cm.

Variorum collected studies series ;CS900

Includes bibliographical references and index

Fatimid institutions of learning -- Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate -- The Ismaili dawa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-MHGakim -- Another family of Fatimid chief QGaMdGis : the al-FGariqGis -- A Byzantine victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971) -- The "crusade" of John Tzimisces in the light of new Arabic evidence -- Al-MaqrGizGi 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-MHGakim" : Greek elements in Ismaili writings on the Imamate -- AbGu TammGam and his KitGab al-Shajara : a new Ismaili treatise from tenth-century Khurasan -- An Ismaili 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

TI , SE , TI Collected studies ;

DT

173

.W352

2008

DT 173 .W352 2008

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