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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Fatimids"”.
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The Bedouin of the Fatimid Empire: Faith vs. Politics in a Medieval Islamic Empire
… who launched a strong movement to depose the Fatimids. In the 4th&5th/11th century, Cairo was attacked by powerful Bedouin, this time from the western parts of the Empire. Arabic texts have recorded, albeit clouded by a Sunnī-Shīʿah prejudice, interactions between the Fatimids and various …
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Exploring Legal Frameworks and Social Realities: A Comparative Study of Ismāʿīlī Women in Fatimid Egypt and the Contemporary Dawoodi Bohra Community
… which traces its spiritual heritage to the Fatimids. It examines how the teachings of the Daʿāʾim continue to shape the lives of Bohra women, particularly in the realms of education, entrepreneurship, and community engagement. Reflecting on the researcher’s positionality as a member of this …
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Glass beads as indicators of contact and trade in Southern Africa ca. AD 900 - AD 1250
… history, when Muslims conquered Egypt and the Fatimids moved their capital eastwards, in AD 969, from Tunisia to al-Qahira (Cairo) next to the well-established cosmopolitan port entrepot of al- Fustat (now old Cairo). Texts, chronicles, glass weights, scribal notes and receipts confirm that it …
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Traditions of Learning in Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya (296-362/909-973): Networks, Practices, and Institutions
This thesis explores the practices, networks, and institutions of learning (ʿilm) in Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya with a focus on the practice of disputation (munāẓara) in its scholarly and courtly contexts — in the majālis — and the relationship between the learned elite of Ifrīqiya and the ruling Fāṭimid …