Intro -- Letter from the General Editor -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- Notes to the Introduction -- The Sword of Ambition -- Notes -- The Fatimid Caliphs in Egypt -- The Ayyubid Sultans in Egypt -- Glossary of Names and T…
Khālid b. Sinān b. Ghayth al-ʿAbsī appears in a number of early and mediaeval Arabic sources as a righteous Arabian monotheist who lived during the interval (fatra) between Jesus (ʿĪsā) and Muḥammad. Many of those sources indicate that he was in fact a prophet (nabī) . Thus cert…
