Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo

By Paula Sanders

Book Overview

Provides an understanding of the complexities of political legitimacy in Islamic dynasties by examining Fatimid political culture in Egypt reconstructed from court rituals.

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 are articulated, and in which complex negotiations of power have taken place.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791417824
• ISBN13: 9780791417829
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher