Title: Ritual, politics, and the city in Fatimid Cairo
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 was articulated, and in which complex negotiations of power have taken place.
Subjects: Court and courtiers, Fatimites, Festivals, History, Medieval Rites and ceremonies, Social history, Social life and customs, Cairo (egypt), Rites and ceremonies, Egypt, history, 640-1882, Social history--medieval, 500-1500, Festivals--history, Festivals--egypt--cairo--history, Rites and ceremonies--egypt--cairo, Fatimites--history, Rites and ceremonies, medieval, Rites and ceremonies, medieval--egypt--cairo, Dt146 .s26 1994, 962/.16
Places: Cairo, Cairo (Egypt), Egypt
Time periods: Medieval, 500-1500