Cover illustration: The Fatimid Royal Palaces in al-Mahdiyya. Kitāb Gharāʾib al-Funūn wa-Mulaḥ al-ʿUyūn (“The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes”), Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Arab. c.90, fol. 34a.
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Names: Walker, Paul Ernest, 1941- author.
Title: The Fatimids : select papers on their governing institutions, social and cultural organization, religious appeal, and rivalries / by Paul E. Walker.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] | Series: Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section one: The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 172 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023024168 (print) | LCCN 2023024169 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004548619 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004548626 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Fatimites. | Fatimites—History.
Classification: LCC DT173 .W353 2023 (print) | LCC DT173 (ebook) | DDC 305.800961—dc23/eng/20230602
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