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050 4 $aDT95.78.H34$bW357 2009
100 1 $aWalker, Paul Ernest,$d1941-
245 10 $aCaliph of Cairo :$bAl-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, 996-1021 /$cPaul E. Walker.
260 $aCairo ;$aNew York :$bAmerican University in Cairo Press,$c2009.
300 $aviii, 325 p. :$bmaps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-316) and index.
505 0 $aWriting the biography of an enigma -- The father, the dynasty, childhood and regency -- al-Maqrizi's chronicle of the middle years -- The institutions of his rule -- Friends and rebels -- Social reform and legislation -- Foreign affairs -- The final seven years -- Afterlife and epilogue.
520 1 $a"One night in the year 411/1021, the powerful ruler of the Fatimid empire, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, rode out of the southern gates of Cairo 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, through 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."--Jacket.
600 00 $aḤākim bi-Amr Allāh,$cCaliph of Egypt,$d985-approximately 1021.
650 0 $aFatimites.
651 0 $aEgypt$xKings and rulers$vBiography.
651 0 $aEgypt$xHistory$y640-1250.
752 $aEgypt$dCairo.
988 $a20100111
906 $0OCLC