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100	1		_aWalker, Paul Ernest _921367
245	1	0	_aFatimid history and Ismaili doctrine / _cPaul E. Walker
260			_aAldershot; _aBurlington, VT: _bAshgate/Variorum, _cc2008.
300			_a1 v. (various pagings): _bmap, geneal. table; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aFatimid institutions of learning -- Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate -- The Ismaili daʻwa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim -- Another family of Fatimid chief Qāḍīs : the al-Fāriqīs -- A Byzantine victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971) -- The "crusade" of John Tzimisces in the light of new Arabic evidence -- Al-Maqrīzī and the Fatimids -- Purloined symbols of the past : the theft of souvenirs and sacred relics in the rivalry between the Abbasids and Fatimids -- "In praise of al-Ḥākim" : Greek elements in Ismaili writings on the Imamate -- Abū Tammām and his Kitāb al-Shajara : a new Ismaili treatise from tenth-century Khurasan -- An Ismaʻili version of the heresiography of the seventy-two erring sects -- Eternal cosmos and the womb of history : time in early Ismaili thought -- The doctrine of metempsychosis in Islam.
650		0	_aFatimites _xHistory. _921368
650		0	_aFatimites _xHistoriography. _921369
650		0	_aIsmailites _xDoctrines. _921370
650		0	_aIslamic philosophy _xGreek influences. _921371
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