Paul E. Walker Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine ASHGATE VARIORUMThis edition © 2008 by Paul E. Walker Paul E, Walker has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Gower House, Croft Road, Suite 420 Aldershot, Hampshire 101 Cherry Street GU11 3HR Burlington, VT 05401-4405 Great Britain USA Ashgate website: http://www.ashgate.com ISBN 978-0-7546-5952-5 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Walker, Paul Ernest, 1941- Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine. - (Variorum collected studies series; no, 900) 1. Fatimites - History 2, Fatimites - Historiography 3, Ismailites - Doctrines 4, Philosophy, Islamic - Greek influences 1 Title 956'.013 ISBN 978-0-7546-5952-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Walker, Paul Ernest, 1941- Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine / by Paul E. Walker. p.cm, - (Variorum collected studies series) Includes index. ISBN 978-0-7546-5952-5 (alk. paper) 1, Fatimites - History, 2. Fatimites - Historiography. 3. Ismailites - Doctrines. 4, Philosophy, Islamic ~ Greek influences. L Title, DT173,W352 2008 956'.013-de22 2007031623 ‘The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences - Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI 239.48-1984, ~ Printed by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES CS900CONTENTS Introduction Acknowledgements 1 I VI VIL VII Fatimid institutions of learning JARCE 34, Cairo, 1997, pp. 179-200 Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate JARCE 32. Cairo, 1995, pp. 239-264 The Ismaili da‘wa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim JARCE 30, Cairo, 1993, pp. 161-162 Another family of Fatimid chief Qadis: the al-Fariqis Journal of Druze Studies 1. San Diego, CA, 2000, pp. 19-69 A Byzantine victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971) Byzantion 42, Brussels, 1972 The “crusade” of John Tzimisces in the light of new Arabic evidence Byzantion 47. Brussells, 1977 Al-Magqrizi and the Fatimids Mamluk Studies Review 7. Chicago, IL, 2003 Purloined symbols of the past: the theft of souvenirs and sacred relics in the rivalry between the Abbasids and Fatimids Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam: Essays in Honour of wilferd Madelung, eds. F. Daftary and J.W Meri. London: 1.B. Tauris, 2003 vii-x xi 1-41 1-48 1-40 1-16 431-440 301-327 83-97 364-387vi XI XID XII Index CONTENTS “In praise of al-Hakim” Greek elements in Ismaili writings on the Imamate 367-392 Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph 57, Beiruit, 2004 Abi Tammam and his Kitab al-Shajara: a new Ismaili treatise from tenth-century Khurasan 1-21 JAOS 114, Ann Arbor, MI, 1994, pp. 343-352 An Isma'ili version of the heresiography of the seventy-two erring sects 161-177 Medieval Isma’ili History and Thought, ed. F. Daftary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996 Eternal cosmos and the womb of history: time in early Ismaili thought 355-366 International Journal of Middle East Studies 9. Cambridge, 1978 . The doctrine of metempsychosis in Islam 1-23 Islamic Studies Presented to Charles J. Adams, eds. W. Hallaq and D, Little. Leiden: E,J. Brill, 1991, pp. 219-238 1-9 This volume contains xii + 338 pages