The Fatimids and Their Traditions of Learning
1st Edition
Published on 27. April 2001
128 pages
978-0-85771-259-2 (ISBN)
Description
I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
The Fatimid period was the golden age of Ismaili thought and literature, when the Shi'ite Ismaili Imams ruled over the vast areas of the Muslim world as the Fatimid caliphs and the Ismailis made important contributions to Islamic civilization. In this book, Heinz Halm investigates the intellectual traditions that developed among the Ismailis from the rise of the Fatimid state in North Africa to the cultural brilliance of what the author calls 'one of the great eras in Egyptian history and in Islamic history in general.'
The Fatimid period was the golden age of Ismaili thought and literature, when the Shi'ite Ismaili Imams ruled over the vast areas of the Muslim world as the Fatimid caliphs and the Ismailis made important contributions to Islamic civilization. In this book, Heinz Halm investigates the intellectual traditions that developed among the Ismailis from the rise of the Fatimid state in North Africa to the cultural brilliance of what the author calls 'one of the great eras in Egyptian history and in Islamic history in general.'
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-85771-259-2 (9780857712592)
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Person
Heinz Halm is Professor of Islamic history at the University of Tubingen and Editor of Die Welt des Orients. A leading German Islamicist and an authority in Ismaili studies, he is author of numerous books, including Kosmologie und Heilslehre der fruhen Isma'iliya (Wiesbaden, 1978), Die islamische Gnosis (Zurich, 1982), Shiism (Islamic Surveys, Edinburgh 1991), and The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids (Leiden, 1996).
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- One. The Ismaili Mission and the Fatimid Caliphate
- Two. The Mission of the da'is and the 'Teaching Sessions'
- Three. The Fatimids in Egypt
- Four. Ismaili Teaching and Learning zahir and batin
- Five. The Organization of the Da'wa
- Six. Al-Hakim's 'House of Knowledge'
- Seven. Scientific Institutions under the Fatimids
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
