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A corpus of Fāṭimid coins
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ISBN: 9788885873308 Year: 2006 Publisher: Trieste : G. Bernardi,

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Arts of the City Victorious : Islamic art and architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt
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ISBN: 9789774161292 9774161297 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press : In association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies,


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Les Fatimides : de l'ésotérisme en islam
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ISBN: 9782204151535 220415153X 220415153X Year: 2022 Publisher: Paris : Les Éditions du Cerf,

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"Imam ismaélien, calife fatimide et dernière manifestation de la divinité druze sur Terre, al-Hakim bi-amr Allah, mort en 1021, relie les ismaéliens, les Fatimides et les Druzes, courants hétérodoxes aux marges de l'islam. De l'histoire de cette figure fondatrice jusqu'au XIXe siècle, l'auteur décrypte l'influence de ces trois courants en faisant la part de la réalité historique et du mythe".


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The Lost archive : traces of a caliphate in a Cairo synagogue
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ISBN: 9780691156477 0691156476 Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton university press.

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The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909-1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer. Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper's westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region's administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology. Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly.

Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras.
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ISBN: 9042915242 9789042915244 9789042932319 9789042936317 9042936312 9042932317 9789042938434 Year: 2005 Volume: 244 Publisher: Leuven : Peeters,

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The eighth volume of proceedings of the International Colloquia on the History of Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras covers the 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd gatherings, organized at Ghent University in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. True to tradition, the 27 articles deal with a wide variety of scholarly subjects, all revolving around the central theme of Syro-Egypt's high and late medieval history. Topics dealt with include archaeology, architecture, codicology, economic, political, and religious history, as well as belles-lettres. With contributions by P.-V. Claverie, N. Coureas, J.-Ch. Ducène, H. Hanisch, D. Igarashi, G. Lelli, Y. Lev, P. Moukarzel, D. Nicolle, C. Onimus, M. Piana, S. Pradines, B. Shoshan, N. Vanthieghem, Th.M. Wijntjes, J. Yeshaya, K. Yosef and M. Zouihal.

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