Ritual, politics, and the city in Fatimid Cairo

Description:

This book provides an understanding of the complexities of political legitimacy in Islamic dynasties by examining Fatimid political culture in Egypt reconstructed from court rituals. The author approaches ritual as a dynamic process through which claims to political and religious authority in Islamic societies was articulated, and in which complex negotiations of power have taken place.

subjects: Court and courtiers,  Fatimites,  Festivals,  History,  Medieval Rites and ceremonies,  Social history,  Social life and customs,  Cairo (egypt),  Rites and ceremonies,  Egypt, history, 640-1882,  Social history--medieval, 500-1500,  Festivals--history,  Festivals--egypt--cairo--history,  Rites and ceremonies--egypt--cairo,  Fatimites--history,  Rites and ceremonies, medieval,  Rites and ceremonies, medieval--egypt--cairo,  Dt146 .s26 1994,  962/.16

Places: Cairo,  Cairo (Egypt),  Egypt

Times: Medieval, 500-1500