Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine / Paul E. Walker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fatimid institutions of learning -- Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate -- The Ismaili da�wa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-�H�akim -- Another family of Fatimid chief Q�a�d�is : the al-F�ariq�is -- A Byzantine victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971) -- The "crusade" of John Tzimisces in the light of new Arabic evidence -- Al-Maqr�iz�i and the Fatimids -- Purloined symbols of the past : the theft of souvenirs and sacred relics in the rivalry between the Abbasids and Fatimids -- "In praise of al-�H�akim" : Greek elements in Ismaili writings on the Imamate -- Ab�u Tamm�am and his Kit�ab al-Shajara : a new Ismaili treatise from tenth-century Khurasan -- An Isma�ili version of the heresiography of the seventy-two erring sects -- Eternal cosmos and the womb of history : time in early Ismaili thought -- The doctrine of metempsychosis in Islam.