Michael Brett

The Fatimid Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From the 10th century to the end of the 12th century, the Fatimid Empire played a central, yet controversial, role in the history of Islam. By relating it to the wider history of Islam, the Crusades and its theocratic counterparts in Byzantium and Western Europe, this book shows the full historical significance of the empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780748640768
• ISBN-10: 0748640762
• Artikelnr.: 35681982

Autorenporträt

Michael Brett is Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa at SOAS. His publications include The Moors: Islam in the West, 1980; (with L. Fentress) The Berbers (1996, with E. Fentress); Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib, 1999; The Rise of the Fatimids, 2001; and Approaching African History, 2013, with contributions to the Cambridge History of Africa, the New Cambridge Medieval History, and The New Cambridge History of Islam.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Box Texts
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Question of Empire
1. The Coming of the Mahdi
2. The City of the Mahdi
3. The Conquest of Egypt
4. The Constitution of the State
5. The Formation of the Empire
6. A Failure of Direction: The Reign of al-Óakim bi Amr Allah
7. The Regime of the Pen
8. The Crisis of the Empire
9. The Fatimid Renascence
10. The Reorientation of the Dynasty
11. The Final Failure
Conclusion: The Fatamids in Retrospect
Genealogy of Shi¿ite Imams
Genealogy of Fatimids
Bibliography
Index.