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Ph.D diss. University of Haifa. Haifa (Hebrew; English summary).. Lev Y. 1987. Army, Regime, and Society in Fatimid Egypt, 358-487/968-1094. International Journal of Middle East Studies 19:337-366.
the Fatimid dynasty ruled over a vast and formidable empire that stretched across swaths of North Africa and the Middle East. After the Fatimids conquered Egypt, they chose Cairo as their capital ...
On this day, Raymond had invited me to meet Mahfouz and I asked along my friend Muhammad, a 26-year-old Egyptian journalist ... of the ancient city’s Fatimid period where he first learned ...
A cursory study reveals that the earliest coin from the hoard was minted in Palermo, Sicily, while the majority came from official Fatimid mints in Egypt and other parts of North Africa and date ...
Most of the new fragments were found in a pit located to the south of the statue's pedestal, which may have been created during the Fatimid period in Egypt, circa 969 to 1171 C.E., when temple ...