The Fatimids: Portrait of a Dynasty: Dynasties
Autor Delia Corteseen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 oct 2025
The Fatimids (909–1171) built an empire that included North Africa, Egypt, and parts of Sicily, Syria, Palestine, and Arabia. Theirs is the only Muslim dynasty known by a woman’s name, Fatima, the Prophet Muhammad’s daughter. The Fatimids promoted women to unprecedented positions of authority and visibility in Islamic history. From Cairo, which they founded in 969, this Shi‘i dynasty fostered cultural and artistic excellence as well as cultural tolerance and prosperity across the empire. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, the book tells both the historical and ongoing influence of the Fatimids on global culture.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781836390190
ISBN-10: 183639019X
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 25 color plates, 25 halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 41 mm
Greutate: 1.13 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Dynasties
ISBN-10: 183639019X
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 25 color plates, 25 halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 41 mm
Greutate: 1.13 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Dynasties
Notă biografică
Delia Cortese is a senior research fellow of Middlesex University, London. Her books include Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam.
Recenzii
"In addition to bringing a vividness to her subject, her writing style also allows Cortese to link the messianic spiritual mission (da‘wa) of the Ismaili Fatimid rulers to material objects and spaces accessible to a reader’s imagination rather than to the abstract and sometimes conspiratorial theorizing that has on occasion attached itself to the issue. The result is a multilayered history that stands out especially in its analyses of how the Fatimids transformed the Mediterranean built environment—in Cairo, the city they founded, as well as in several other cities and towns throughout North Africa and the Levant—and how their political and religious mission grew over two centuries from an esoteric, underground movement into a regionally influential administrative policy. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers through graduate students."
“Drawing on a wide array of primary sources and secondary studies, Delia Cortese has produced here a comprehensive and fascinating account of the dynasty of the Ismaili Shi‘i imams who ruled for 262 years as Fatimid caliphs over a flourishing empire. This book traces the evolution of this dynasty, from its origins in 909 to its demise in 1171. Permeated with extensive insights and new interpretations and written in a highly accessible style with numerous images, this book also covers a number of hitherto relatively unexplored territories, such as the treatment of women under the Fatimids, and pays ample attention to the contributions of the Fatimids to Islamic civilisation. The Fatimids: Portrait of a Dynasty will be of great value to specialists in Fatimid-Ismaili studies as well as students and readers interested in medieval Islamic history in general and this Shi‘i dynasty in particular.”
“Navigating flawlessly through the complex geopolitical narrative that saw a marginal movement of North African Berbers engender the Islamic world’s most intellectually vibrant and enlightened dynasty—one that founded Cairo and at times ruled from Sicily to the Levant—Delia Cortese brings the Fatimid story to life with brilliant descriptions of its surviving physical residue. While grasping the millennial theology that energised the movement, she transcends normative historiography by showing how Fatimid architecture, jewellery, textiles and royal artefacts must have dazzled people living well beyond Egypt and the Mediterranean nearly a millennium ago. Her book is not only a vital contribution to ‘Islamic’ history, but to World history.”
"Cortese’s book on the origin and history of the Fatimids sheds fresh light on such special aspects as the court life, culture, arts and the role of women and tells the story of the strange regime and sudden disappearance of the enigmatic caliph al-Hakim. A fascinating new view on one of the most dramatic epochs in the history of the Near East."
“Drawing on a wide array of primary sources and secondary studies, Delia Cortese has produced here a comprehensive and fascinating account of the dynasty of the Ismaili Shi‘i imams who ruled for 262 years as Fatimid caliphs over a flourishing empire. This book traces the evolution of this dynasty, from its origins in 909 to its demise in 1171. Permeated with extensive insights and new interpretations and written in a highly accessible style with numerous images, this book also covers a number of hitherto relatively unexplored territories, such as the treatment of women under the Fatimids, and pays ample attention to the contributions of the Fatimids to Islamic civilisation. The Fatimids: Portrait of a Dynasty will be of great value to specialists in Fatimid-Ismaili studies as well as students and readers interested in medieval Islamic history in general and this Shi‘i dynasty in particular.”
“Navigating flawlessly through the complex geopolitical narrative that saw a marginal movement of North African Berbers engender the Islamic world’s most intellectually vibrant and enlightened dynasty—one that founded Cairo and at times ruled from Sicily to the Levant—Delia Cortese brings the Fatimid story to life with brilliant descriptions of its surviving physical residue. While grasping the millennial theology that energised the movement, she transcends normative historiography by showing how Fatimid architecture, jewellery, textiles and royal artefacts must have dazzled people living well beyond Egypt and the Mediterranean nearly a millennium ago. Her book is not only a vital contribution to ‘Islamic’ history, but to World history.”