Founding the Fatimid state: the rise of an early Islamic empire : an annotated English translation of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān's Iftitāḥ al-Daʻwa
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Main Author: Nuʻmān ibn Muḥammad, Abū Ḥanīfah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London I.B. Tauris 2006
Series:Ismaili texts and translations series (Institute of Ismaili Studies) 6
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-247) and index
This is an annotated English translation of Qadi al-Nu'man's Iftitah al-de' wa. This book is the most important primary source for the emergence of the Fatimid state in the early years of the tenth century. Its author, Qadi al-Nu'man, was an official historian of the Fatimids and an eminent exponent of Ismaili jurisprudence--as well being perhaps the most distinguished and creative of all the Fatimid thinkers. The Iftitah is al-Nu'man's major historical work, and records in detail the background to the establishment of the Fatimid state, first in Yemen and then in north Africa. It is based on official archival and biographical documents that were accessible to the author at the time, and which have not survived
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 256 p.)
ISBN:1429454040
1850438854
6000010184
9781429454049
9781850438854
9786000010188

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