Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo

ISBN-13: 9780791417829 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 248 str.

Paula Sanders

Opis

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.