num_pages: 246
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 are articulated, and in which complex negotiations of power have taken place.
language: English
title: Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo
titlecomplete: Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo
ratings_count: 7
publisher: State University of New York Press