The Fatimid Caliphate
Diversity of Traditions
I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesThe Fatimids ruled much of the Mediterranean world for over two centuries. From the conquest of Qayrawan in 909 to defeat at the hands of Saladin in 1171, the Fatimid caliphate governed a vast area stretching, at its peak, from the Red Sea in the East to the Atlantic Ocean in the West. Their leaders - the Ismaili Shi`i Imam-caliphs - were distinctive in largely pursuing a policy of tolerance towards the religious and ethnic communities of their realm, and they embraced diverse approaches to the practicalities of administering a vast empire. Such methods of negotiating government a…
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Weitere Autoren: Jiwa, Shainool (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78672-309-3
- EAN: 9781786723093
- Produktnummer: 28313303
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 402 KB
Über den Autor
Farhad Daftary is Co-Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and Head of its Department of Academic Research and Publications. An authority on both Shi`i and Ismaili studies, he has lectured and published widely, with more than 200 articles, encyclopaedia entries, edited books and acclaimed monographs. Most recent of these are: Ismaili History and Intellectual Traditions (2017), Fifty Years in the East: The Memoirs of Wladimir Ivanow (2015) and The Study of Shi'i Islam (2014). Dr Daftary's books have been translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Gujarati, Chinese, Indonesian and numerous European languages.Shainool Jiwa is a senior faculty member at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. As a specialist on the Fatimids, she has written and lectured extensively on medieval Islamic history and has edited and translated key medieval Arabic texts relating to Fatimid history, including The Founder of Cairo (2013) and Towards a Shi`i Mediterranean Empire (2009). Dr Jiwa is also the co-editor of The Shi`i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity (2015).
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