Early Fatimid Research Articles

Architectural Decorations of The Mosques of Barqah (Eastern Libya)

A group of ancient mosques dating back to the Fatimid period were discovered in the Libyan region of Barqah, when examining its ruins, it became clear the extent of care in their architecture and decoration. The importance of the article lies in its interest in the architecture of the early Fatimid mosques in the province of Barqah, and its tracing of many of the discovered decorative patterns, trying to employ them, and making the necessary comparisons that help in dating them. The main question here is limited to how to identify the decorative artistic methods that surrounded the Fatimid mosques discovered in Barqah. Thus, the study aims to introduce the Fatimid Barqah mosques, and to highlight and analyze their decorative features. Perhaps what gives this study its original character is that it follows a group of decorative samples in some local and international museums, and subject it to study and analysis by following some research methods such as the historical, descriptive and comparative analytical method, in addition to the archaeological research method and its applied methods in the study of archaeological samples, and relying on field visits. Enables the study to sort out some of the features of the architectural decoration that characterized the architecture of the early Fatimid mosques in the province of Barqah by studying some of the decorative samples from them, its showed that there is a specific artistic style that appeared in many of the decorative examples discovered in Barqah, and it showed how consistent it was with the artistic styles coming from the mosques of Tunisia and Egypt. With regard to future studies, the study emphasizes the need to pay more attention to conducting more research on other samples that the researcher could not access due to some security conditions that the study area is going through.

Lembaga Pendidikan Tinggi Al-Azhar: Mengenang Peradaban Islam Masa Fatimiyah (297-567 H/909-1171 M)

<p>Al-Azhar is one of the institution's pride the Islamic Ummah. History has recorded how the existence of Al-Azhar of the early Fatimid Dynasty to this day holds a great story very interesting. Not only that, Al-Azhar also contribute on the development of civilization and Islamic intellectuals. Many scientists the great scientists who were born from there. One thing that is not less important is that it turns out that the existing educational system in Al-Azhar turned out at the adoption by the institutions which exist in Western countries. Therefore, this paper will try to uncover the historical return of Al-Azhar during the Fatimid Dynasty, history of the establishment, and the factors that affect the educational system.</p>

The Martyrdom of Jirjis (Muzāḥim): Hagiography and Coptic Orthodox Imagination in Early Fatimid Egypt

The tenth-century neomartyr Jirjis (called Muzāḥim before his conversion to Christianity and baptism) is well known from the précis of his Martyrdom preserved in the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion (entry for 19 Baʾūna). The full text of the Martyrdom (as preserved in the fourteenth-century manuscript Cairo, Coptic Museum, History 469) allows us to date Muzāḥim’s imprisonments and execution to the year 978. If, as is probable, the Martyrdom was composed soon afterwards, it is a valuable witness to intercommunal relations and to processes of Coptic identity-definition in the early Fatimid period in Egypt. It draws the Christian-Muslim (and even Coptic-Melkite) boundaries as clearly as possible, offering a no-nuance evaluative stance that is in startling contrast with the more ecumenical approach of the sources preserved in The History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria.

『ジャウザルの伝記』にみる初期ファーティマ朝宮廷の内情

Sira al-Ustadh Jawdhar is a biography of Jawdhar who served the first four Fatimid caliphs and occupied a high position both in the court and in the administration. The character of this work is that the greater part of it consists of quotations from the documents relating to different affairs in which Jawdhar was involved. Therefore, this work provides vivid information about the affairs which took place at the Fatimid court. Among such information, perhaps the especially interesting topics are those concerning the discord in the Fatimid family and the designation of the heir apparent. I have here considered these two topics in an attempt to elucidate the inside affairs of the early Fatimid court.

An Early Fatimid Source On the Time and Authorship of the Rasā' Il Ihwān Al-Safā'

Traduction (texte arabe en appendice) et commentaire d'un court texte fatimide relatif a la grande encyclopedie de l'Islam medieval, le Rasail Ihwan Al-Safa. Il s'agit d'une page du Fatimide Dai Gafar b. Mansur al-Yaman extraite de la biographie de son pere, Sirat Ibn Hawsab, et citee par le 8 Yaman i Tayyibi Fatimid Dai Husayn b. Ali b. Muhammad b. al-Walid (mort en 1268 ap. J.-C.). Dai Gafar a vecu ca. 883-970 ap J.-C.

Muslim: An Early Fatimid Ceramist

Muslim: An Early Fatimid Ceramist