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Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo
Contributor(s): Sanders, Paula (Author)
ISBN: 0791417816     ISBN-13: 9780791417812
Publisher: State University of New York Press
OUR PRICE:   $90.25  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 1994
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Middle East - Egypt (see Also Ancient - Egypt)
Dewey: 962.16
LCCN: 93022317
Lexile Measure: 1540
Series: Suny Medieval Middle East History
Physical Information: 248 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
 
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Publisher 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.