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Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine (Paperback)
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Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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The thirteen studies in this volume explore critical problems in
Fatimid history and historiography, many specifically focused on
the content of doctrinal writings produced by the Ismaili
supporters and agents of this caliphate who worked on behalf of the
dynasty both within the empire and outside. Several concern issues
in disputes that separated the various factions of Medieval Islam
and served to distinguish the Ismailis from the rest, often
branding the Fatimids with the charge of heterodoxy. Others deal
with the consequence of Shiite rule over a largely non-Shiite
populace. Yet others involve the relationship between religious
ideology and the administration of government. Among the themes
featured in this collection there are separate investigations of
institutions of learning, of succession to the imamate, the da`wa,
the judiciary, relations with the Byzantines and with the Abbasids,
and works on heresiography, doctrines of time and the accusation
that the Ismailis upheld the metempsychosis of the human soul. The
latter topics help to situate the Ismailis, and hence the Fatimids,
within the broader context of Islamic thought.
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