Between revolution and state
Subtitle: the path to Fatimid statehood : Qadi Al-Nuʻman and the construction of Fatimid legitimacy
By: Sumaiya A. Hamdani
Contributors: Institute of Ismaili Studies
Series: Ismaili heritage series -- 11
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; In association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781850438823
Subjects: Qāḍī, al-Nuʻmān; Ismailites -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Imamate -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Description: This book examines some of the most important writings of al-Qadi al-Nuʻman, a tenth-century Islamic theologian and jurist who was one of the most original thinkers of his period. It argues that Qadi al-Nuʻman's work constituted new and vital genres in Ismaili Shiʻi literature, a development necessitated by the Fatimids' transition from revolutionary movement to statehood, and by their desire to establish authority as the Shiʻi alternative to the Sunni Abbasid caliphate.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-197) and index