Fatimids

The chapters of this volume contain a series of detailed studies of various aspects of Fatimid rule in the regions of its Mediterranean and Near Eastern empire, 909 to 1171 AD, including separately the role of the imam-caliph, wazir, chief qadi and da?i, and other political and public offices of this Shi?i caliphate. Geographically it covers North Africa, Sicily, the Levant, Hijaz, Cairo and Egypt...