The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East, Band 26)

Halm, Heinz

ISBN 10: 9004100563 ISBN 13: 9789004100565

Verlag: BRILL Deutschland GmbH, 1996

In the 9th century, a secret sect of the Ismā'īlīs -- known in the Middle Ages under the name of Fatimids -- arose to play a prominent role in the history of the Near East. Their supreme head today is the Agha Khan. In this mesmerising book, Heinz Halm describes the early history of the Fatimids, from the founding and spread of the secret society to the rise of the caliphal dynasty to power in North Africa and the founding of Cairo, their capital.

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Heinz Halm, Ph.D. (1967) in Islamic Studies, University of Bonn, is Professor of Islamic History at the University of T�bingen. He specialises in Shi'ite Iran; his book Shiism appeared in an English translation in 1991.
Michael Bonner, Ph.D. (1987) in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, is Associate Professor of Medieval Islamic History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His translation of A. Noth, Quellenkritische Studien zu Themen, Formen und Tendenzen fr�hislamischer Geschichts�berlieferung was published in 1994 as The Early Arabic Historical Tradition.

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