TY - BOOK AU - Walker,Paul Ernest AU - Craig,Bruce D. TI - Ismaili and Fatimid studies in honor of Paul E. Walker T2 - Chicago studies on the middle east SN - 9780970819963 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - BP195.I8 I754 2010 U1 - 297.8/22 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Chicago PB - Middle East Documentation Center KW - Ismailites KW - History KW - Fatimites N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - Hidden imams and mahdis in Ismaili history / Farhad Daftary -- Kawn al-ʻalam: the cosmogony of the Ismaʻili daʻi Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Nasafi / Wilferd Madelung -- Maqriziana XII. evaluating the sources for the Fatimid period: Ibn al-Maʻmun al-Baṭāiḥī's history and its use by al-Maqrizi (with a critical edition of his résumé for the years 501-515 a.h.) / Frédéric Bauden -- Sources for al-Qaḍi al-Nuʻman's works and their authenticity / Ismail K. Poonawala -- Was Naṣir-e Khusraw a great poet and only a minor philosopher? Some critical reflections on his doctrine of the soul / Daniel De Smet -- A Shiʻi-Muʻtazili poem of al-Ṣaḥib b. ʻAbbad (d. 385/995) / Maurice A. Pomerantz -- An illustration of the Caliph al-Ḥakim together with his astronomer/astrologer Ibn Yunus / David A. King -- The Almohads and the Fatimids / Maribel Fierro -- Church building, repair, and destruction in Fatimid Egypt / Marlis J. Saleh -- Urban violence at Baghdad in the rivalry between the Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates / Abbas Hamdani ER -