BETWEEN REVOLUTION AND STATE: THE PATH TO FATIMID STATEHOOD. QADI AL-NU'MAN AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF FATIMID LEGITIMACY
Language: English
Published by I.b. Tauris And The Institute Of Ismaili Studies, London, 2006
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8vo. pp xxvi, 210. Blue illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine. ISBN: 9781850438823 About fine.
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- Title
- BETWEEN REVOLUTION AND STATE: THE PATH TO FATIMID STATEHOOD. QADI AL-NU'MAN AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF FATIMID LEGITIMACY
- Author
- HAMDANI, Sumaiya A.
- Publisher
- I.b. Tauris And The Institute Of Ismaili Studies, London
- Publication year
- 2006
- Dust jacket
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 185043882X
- ISBN 13
- 9781850438823
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- 1st Edition
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This book examines the most important writings of a tenth century Islamic theologian and jurist who was one of the most original thinkers of his period. It argues that Qadi al-Nu'man's works constituted new and vital genres in Ismaili Shi'i literature, an emergence necessitated by the Fatimids' transition from revolutionary movement to statehood, and by their desire to establish their authority as a Shi'i alternative to the Sunni Abbasid caliphate. Al-Nu'man, already famous in the Fatimid era, produced a legacy which consists of a school of law, historical and biographical works, new interpretations of Ismaili doctrine, and the formulation of a ceremonial language achieved through his work on court protocol. Between Revolution and State represents a sophisticated and readable analysis of one of the seminal figures of the Fatimid period.
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