
A Short History of the Fatimid Khalifate
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About This Book
First published in 2000. This is Volume IV of six of the Oriental series looking at Arabic History and Culture. It was written in 1923, and includes a brief outline of the history of the Fatinlid Khalifs who were ruling in Egypt at the time of the First and Second Crusades.
Chapters (307)
- A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FATIMID KHALIFATE
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- CONTENTS
- I THE SHIʿITES OR SCHISMATICS OF ISLAM
- GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF ʿALI
- II THE ISMAʿILIAN SECT
- III THE QARMATIANS
- IV ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FATIMIDS IN NORTH AFRICA
- V THE FATIMID KHALIFS OF KAIRAWAN
- VI THE SECOND FATIMID KHALIF, AL-QAʾIM
- VII THE THIRD FATIMID KHALIF, AL-MANSUR
- VIII THE FOURTH FATIMID KHALIF, AL-MOʿIZZ
- IX THE FIFTH FATIMID KHALIF, AL-ʿAZIZ
- X THE SIXTH FATIMID KHALIF, AL-HAKIM
- XI THE SEVENTH FATIMID KHALIF, AZ-ZAHIR
- XII THE EIGHTH FATIMID KHALIF, AL-MUSTANSIR
- XIII THE NINTH FATIMID KHALIF, AL-MUSTALI
- XIV THE TENTH FATIMID KHALIF, AL-AMIR
- XV THE ELEVENTH FATIMID KHALIF, AL-HAFIZ
- XVI THE TWELFTH FATIMID KHALIF, AZ-ZAFIR
- XVII THE THIRTEENTH FATIMID KHALIF, AL-FAʿIZ
- XVIII THE FOURTEENTH FATIMID KHALIF, AL-ʿADID
- XIX THE FATIMID KHALIFATE IN ITS RELATION TO GENERAL HISTORY
- (i) The Formation of the Fatimid Khalifate. (A.H. 260-356 = A.D. 873-966.)
- (ii) The Golden Age of the Fatimids. (A.H. 356-469 = A.D. 966-1076.)
- (iii) Third Period. Fatimid decline. (A.H. 469-564 = A.D. 1076-1168.)
- XX. THE LATER HISTORY OF THE ISMAʿILIAN SECT
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Abraham the Syrian.
- Ibn Adhari (d. 662).
- Ahmad b. Yahya al-Baladuri.
- Arib b. Saʿd of Cordoba (circ. 366).
- Ibn al-Athir (ʿAli b. Muhammad).
- Baha ad-Din (Muhammad b. Husayn).
- Eutychius.
- Abu l-Feda (Ismaʿil b. ʿAli, king of Hamat in 743, died 749).
- Fihrist. The Fihrist of Muhammad b. Ishaq an-Nadim.
- Gregory Bar Hebraeus or Abu l-Faraj.
- Al-Kairawani. Muhammad b. ʿAli r-Rayni al-Kairawani.
- Kamal ad-Din.
- Ibn Khaldun, Wali ad-Din Abu Zayd Abdu r-Rahman ibn Khaldun.
- Ibn Khallikan. Shams ad-Din Abu l-Abbas.
- Khandemir (Khwand Amir).
- Abu l-Mahasin.
- Al-Makini.
- Maqrizi, Ahmah b. ʿAli b. ʿAbdu l-Qadir al-Maqrizi (dz. 845).
- Nasir-i-Khusraw.
- An-Nuwairi, Ahmad b. ʿAbdu l-Wahhab. (d. 733).
- Osama.
- al-Qalqashandi.
- (B). Modern Writers.
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