Title
Ismaili and Fatimid studies in honor of Paul E. Walker / edited by Bruce D. Craig.
Alternative title
Type
book
Author
al-Maqrīzī, Taqī al-Dīn Abu l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī
Translator/Editor
Craig Bruce - editor
is Part Of
Chicago studies on the middle east
Physical description
Xix, 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Pages
- Volume
Open ITI
0845Maqrizi.ItticazHunafa
Genre
Dynastic History
Historiography
Historiography
Date
2010
Publisher/University
Chicago : Middle East Documentation Center,
Language
English
Extra information
Includes bibliographical references.
Hidden imams and mahdis in Ismaili history / Farhad Daftary -- Kawn al-ʻalam: the cosmogony of the Ismaʻili daʻi Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Nasafi / Wilferd Madelung -- Maqriziana XII. evaluating the sources for the Fatimid period: Ibn al-Maʻmun al-Baṭāiḥī's history and its use by al-Maqrizi (with a critical edition of his résumé for the years 501-515 a.h.) / Frédéric Bauden -- Sources for al-Qaḍi al-Nuʻman's works and their authenticity / Ismail K. Poonawala -- Was Naṣir-e Khusraw a great poet and only a minor philosopher? Some critical reflections on his doctrine of the soul / Daniel De Smet -- A Shiʻi-Muʻtazili poem of al-Ṣaḥib b. ʻAbbad (d. 385/995) / Maurice A. Pomerantz -- An illustration of the Caliph al-Ḥakim together with his astronomer/astrologer Ibn Yunus / David A. King -- The Almohads and the Fatimids / Maribel Fierro -- Church building, repair, and destruction in Fatimid Egypt / Marlis J. Saleh -- Urban violence at Baghdad in the rivalry between the Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates / Abbas Hamdani.
Hidden imams and mahdis in Ismaili history / Farhad Daftary -- Kawn al-ʻalam: the cosmogony of the Ismaʻili daʻi Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Nasafi / Wilferd Madelung -- Maqriziana XII. evaluating the sources for the Fatimid period: Ibn al-Maʻmun al-Baṭāiḥī's history and its use by al-Maqrizi (with a critical edition of his résumé for the years 501-515 a.h.) / Frédéric Bauden -- Sources for al-Qaḍi al-Nuʻman's works and their authenticity / Ismail K. Poonawala -- Was Naṣir-e Khusraw a great poet and only a minor philosopher? Some critical reflections on his doctrine of the soul / Daniel De Smet -- A Shiʻi-Muʻtazili poem of al-Ṣaḥib b. ʻAbbad (d. 385/995) / Maurice A. Pomerantz -- An illustration of the Caliph al-Ḥakim together with his astronomer/astrologer Ibn Yunus / David A. King -- The Almohads and the Fatimids / Maribel Fierro -- Church building, repair, and destruction in Fatimid Egypt / Marlis J. Saleh -- Urban violence at Baghdad in the rivalry between the Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates / Abbas Hamdani.