Author: Halm, Heinz.
Title: The empire of the Mahdi. The rise of the Fatimids. Translated from the German by Michael Bonner.
Description: Leiden, New York & Köln, E.J. Brill, 1996. XIII,452 pp. 11 b./w. maps & 28 b./w. ills on plts. Orig. hardcover (gilt lettered green cloth), no d./j. (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Abt. 1, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten. The Near and Middle East, Bd. 26).This book provides a detailed description of the history of the Isma'ili sect and caliphal dynasty, the Fatimids, in North Africa (875-973). - - The Fatimid Caliphate was an Ismaili Shia caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries AD. Spanning a large area of North Africa, it ranged from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east. The Fatimids, a dynasty of Arab origin, trace their ancestry to Muhammad's daughter Fatima and her husband ‘Ali b. Abi Talib, the first Shi‘ite imam. [Source: Wikipedia]. - - Translation of Das Reich des Mahdi. - Publisher's list price € 209,--

Keywords: Ethnography Africa Etnografie / Afrika(Kalifat der Fatimiden) Etnografie Afrika Etnografie / Afrika(Kalifat der Fatimiden)