This is a detailed survey of different genres of source materials, including historiographical, epigraphic and numismatic, on Fatamid history. It represents a comprehensive treatment of the subject and should be of great importance to students and academics alike.
About 405/1015 Ismaili da'i Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani composed a treatise he called Lights to Illuminate the Proof of the Imamate (al-Masabih fi ithbat al-imama) in the bold hope of convincing Fakhr al-Mulk, the Shi'i wazir of the Buyids in Baghdad, to abandon the Abbasids and support the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim. This work offers a translation.
The Fatimid empire flourished from the beginning of the 10th to the end of the 12th century. The sacred dimension of their rulers was manifested when the imam-Caliphs personally delivered sermons, or khutbas, to their subjects. This book offers a history of the festival sermons and explores their key themes and rhetorical strategies.
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