The Caliph of Cairo: Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, 9961021
ISBN-13:
9789774163289
ISBN-10:
9774163281
Edition:
1
Author:
Paul E. Walker
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
The American University in Cairo Press
Format:
Hardcover
336 pages
Category:
United States
,
Historical
,
Africa
,
Middle East
,
United States History
,
Egypt
,
Middle East History
,
History
,
Islam
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ISBN-13:
9789774163289
ISBN-10:
9774163281
Edition:
1
Author:
Paul E. Walker
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
The American University in Cairo Press
Format:
Hardcover
336 pages
Category:
United States
,
Historical
,
Africa
,
Middle East
,
United States History
,
Egypt
,
Middle East History
,
History
,
Islam
Summary
The Caliph of Cairo: Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, 9961021 (ISBN-13: 9789774163289 and ISBN-10: 9774163281), written by authors
Paul E. Walker, was published by The American University in Cairo Press in 2010.
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One night in the year 411/1021, the powerful ruler of Fatimid Cairo, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, rode out of the southern gates of his city and was never seen again. Was the caliph murdered, or could he have decided to abandon his royal life, wandering off to live alone and anonymous? Whatever the truth, the fact was that al-Hakim had literally vanished into the desert. Yet al-Hakim, though shrouded in mystery, has never been forgotten. To the Druze, he was (and is) God, and his disappearance merely indicated his reversion to non-human form. For Ismailis, al-Hakim was the sixteenth imam, descended from the Prophet, and infallible. Jews and Christians, by contrast, long remembered him as their persecutor, who ordered the destruction of many of their synagogues and churches. Using all the tools of modern scholarship, Paul Walker offers the most balanced and engaging biography yet to be published of this endlessly fascinating individual.
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