Description |
1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : maps. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
SUNY series in medieval Middle East history
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SUNY series in medieval Middle East history.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Ch. 1. Introduction. Fatimid History: An Overview. Approaching Fatimid Rituals -- Ch. 2. The Ceremonial Idiom. Protocols of Rank. Symbols of Authority. The Caliph as Center -- Ch. 3. The Ritual City. The Beginnings of the Ritual City. The Elaboration of the Ritual City under al-'Aziz. The Integration of Fustat into the Ritual City. The Restoration of al-Amir and the Reinterpretation of the Ritual City -- Ch. 4. Politics, Power, and Administration: The New Year's Ceremony. The Model Procession: Ibn al-Tuwayr's Description of the New Year. The Negotiation of Power in the New Year's Procession -- Ch. 5. The Urban River. The Highwayman of Egypt: Agriculture and Irrigation. The Ceremony to Cut the Canal. Late Fatimid Nile Ceremonies. Perfuming the Nilometer. Dating the Nilometer Ceremony. The Urban River -- Ch. 6. Ceremonial as Polemic. The Event at Ghadir Khumm and Its Importance in Isma'ili Thought. Popular Celebrations of the Festival of Ghadir. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Summary |
This book provides an understanding of the complexities of political legitimacy in Islamic dynasties by examining Fatimid political culture in Egypt reconstructed from court rituals. The author approaches ritual as a dynamic process through which claims to political and religious authority in Islamic societies was articulated, and in which complex negotiations of power have taken place. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Fāṭimides (dynastie) -- Histoire. |
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Cairo (Egypt) -- Social life and customs.
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Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Cairo (Egypt) -- Court and courtiers.
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Festivals -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History.
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Festivals. |
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Egypt -- Cairo. |
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History. |
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Rites and ceremonies -- Egypt -- Cairo.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Fatimites -- History.
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Fatimites. |
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Egypt -- Court and courtiers.
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Egypt. |
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Courts and courtiers. |
Chronological Term |
500 - 1500 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Sanders, Paula. Ritual, politics, and the city in Fatimid Cairo. [Albany, N.Y.] : State University of New York Press, ©1994 0791417816 (DLC) 93022317 (OCoLC)27677916 |
ISBN |
0585044465 (electronic book) |
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9780585044460 (electronic book) |
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0791417816 |
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0791417824 |
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9780791417812 (alkaline paper) |
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9780791417829 (alkaline paper) |
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