The Fatimids and Egypt

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Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 252
Series: Variorum Collected Studies, CS1077
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Series Page
Half Title
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
Introduction
Part I: The history of Egypt
1 Writing the history of Egypt for the New Cambridge History of Islam
Part II: The population of Egypt
2 The way of the peasant
3 Population and conversion to Islam in Egypt in the mediaeval period
Part III: The men of the pen
4 The execution of Ibn Badūs
5 The execution of al-Yāzūrī
Part IV: Fatimid diplomacy
6 Translation
7 The diplomacy of empire: Fatimids and Zirids, 990–1062
8 The Ifrīqiyan sijill of al-Mustanṣir, 445 H/1053–4 CE
9 The poetry of disaster: the tragedy of Qayrawān, 1052–57 CE (Urbain Vermeulen: Festschrift)
Part V: The Fatimid renascence
10 Badr al-Jamālī and the Fatimid renascence
11 Al-Karāza al-Marqusīya: the Coptic Church in the Fatimid empire
12 The origins of the Mamluk military system in the Fatimid period
Part VI: The Fatimids and the Crusades
13 The Muslim response to the First Crusade
14 The battles of Ramla, 1099–1105
15 The Fatimids and the counter- Crusade, 1099–1171
Index

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