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Founder of Cairo, The: The Fatimid Imam-Caliph al-Mu?izz and his Era (Ismaili Texts and Translations Book 21) by Idrīs ʻImād al-Dīn Qurashī; Shainool Jiwa; Institute of Ismaili Studies is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"The reign of the founder of Cairo, the fourth Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (341-365/953-975), marks a watershed in the transformation of the Fatimid state from a regional North African dynasty to an expansive Mediterranean empire. It was also under al- Mu'izz that articulations of the supreme authority of the Fatimid Ismaili imamate were written and disseminated across various regions of Fatimid influence. The writings of Idris 'Imad al-Din (d. 872/1468) provide a distinctive presentation of the Fatimid imamate from the perspective of the Ismaili da'wa itself. as the chief d'ai of the Yemeni Tayyib Ismailis, Idris composed his monumental "Uyun al-akhbar wa funun al-athar' as a record of the Ismaili imamate from its inception to his own time. in doing so, Idris drew upon the rich repertoire of Ismaili and non-Ismaili sources that had been part of the corpus of the Fatimid literary tradition, many of which have subsequently been lost due to the vagaries of time and circumstance. As the only surviving medieval Ismaili work documenting the history of the Fatimid dynasty, the "Uy-un al-akhbar' is among its principal primary sources. This book provides the first annotated

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Author

Idrīs ʻImād al-Dīn Qurashī; Shainool Jiwa; Institute of Ismaili Studies

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780857733719

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Middle Eastern History, Humanities