Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo

by Paula Sanders

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.

Hardcover

First published March 8, 1994

Reviews

[Annette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good. First two chapters lay out the argument and the last few are essentially examples of those arguments.