Fatimid Cosmopolitanism

History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion
Herausgeber: Daftary, Farhad; Jiwa, Shainool; Bilotto, Gregory

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the diverse achievements of the Fatimid dynasty across religion, statecraft and art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9780755657780
• ISBN-10: 0755657780
• Artikelnr.: 72216072

Autorenporträt

GREGORY BILOTTO, an art historian and archaeologist, is currently associate curator of early Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and an associate lecturer at The Institute of Ismaili Studies. FARHAD DAFTARY is Director Emeritus and a governor at The Institute of Ismaili Studies. An authority on Ismaili studies, he has written and edited 27 books in this field, including The Isma'ilis (1990; 2007), and he is also the general editor of several academic series. SHAINOOL JIWA is Associate Professor at The Institute of Ismaili Studies. She is a specialist in Fatimid studies, a field in which she has published and taught extensively.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Preface by Gregory Bilotto
List of Abbreviations
I. Fatimid Religion and Statecraft
1. Ismaili Neoplatonism: The Cosmopolitan Legacy of the Fatimid Ismaili
Da?wa
Khalil Andani
2. Who was Nasir-i Khusraw's Patron in Yumgan? Notes on the Political
Vectors of the Late Fatimid Da?wa
Daniel Beben
3. The Reign of the Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah:
Historiographical Considerations
Shainool Jiwa
4. The Fatimid Kitab al-Majalis wa'l-musayarat as Responsa to Internal
Controversy and External Propaganda
Hasan al-Khoee
5. (Re)-making time, (Re)-making place: Some Considerations on Early
Fatimid Ta?wil and Sacred Space
Jamel A. Velji
6. Fatimid Public Pronouncements: Messages from a Shi?i Dynasty to a
Cosmopolitan Empire
Paul E. Walker
II. The Fatimid Legacy Reconsidered
1. The Modern Rediscovery of the Fatimid Artistic and Architectural Legacy
in Egypt
Dina Ishak Bakhoum
2. A Dynasty for All Seasons: The Fatimids in Modern and Contemporary
Cosmopolitanism Discourses
Delia Cortese
3. Wladimir Ivanow and Fatimid Studies
Farhad Daftary
4. The Untold Problem of Ibn al-Haytham's Scientific Legacy in Islamic Art
History
Valerie Gonzalez
5. The Fatimids and the Indian Ocean: Evidence from the Book of Curiosities
Yossef Rapoport
III. Fatimid Ceremony and Symbolism
1. The Fatimid Crescent: Understanding a Complex Religio-Political Cosmos
through Lunar Symbolism
Ali Asgar Alibhai
2. The Power of Six - Astral, Solomonic and Imami Imagery in Fatimid Art
Bernard O'Kane
3. The Cosmopolitan Ecosystem of the Festival Costumes of 515/1122
Paula Sanders
4. Back to Black Background: The Rediscovery of Black Background and the
Aesthetic of Darkness - A Global Visual Spectacle during the Fatimid Age
Avinoam Shalem
5. 'Displaying the Hidden: Fatimid Public Texts in Floriated Kufic' Fatimid
Cosmopolitanism: History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion
Yasser Tabbaa
IV. Art and Archeology
1. A Fatimid Mermaid
Doris Behrens-Abouseif and Juan de Lara
2. 'The Work is Blessed, Unique': The Fatimid Silver Casket of Sadaqa b.
Yusuf
Anna Contadini
3. Fatimid Jewellery Hoards from Palestine in the Light of the Cairo Geniza
Documents
Ayala Lester
4. The Fatimid Rock Crystal Ewers - Innovation or Variation? A Historical
and Iconographical Investigation
Marcus Pilz
5. Seventeen Years of Archeological Excavations in Cairo: The Ismaili
capital city and Fustat during the Fatimid period
Stephane Pradines
6. Reassessing Fatimid Figuralism: Ettinghausen, Grabar and a Medieval
Lustre Workshop[e1]
Jennifer A. Pruit
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Index