Before the Arabs conquered northwest Africa in the seventh century, Ramzi Rouighi asserts, there were no Berbers. There were Moors (Mauri), Mauretanians, Africans, and many tribes and tribal federations such as the Leuathae or Musulami; and before the Arabs, no one thought that …
Inventing the Berbers examines the emergence of the Berbers as a distinct category in early Arabic texts and probes the ways in which later Arabic sources, shaped by contemporary events, imagined the Berbers as a people and the Maghrib as their home.
The empire of the Mahdi: the rise of the Fatimids
by Halm, Heinz
fromHandbuch der Orientalistik
The empire of the Mahdi: the rise of the Fatimids
by Halm, Heinz
fromHandbuch der Orientalistik
The empire of the Mahdi: the rise of the Fatimids
by Halm, Heinz
fromHandbuch der Orientalistik
The empire of the Mahdi: the rise of the Fatimids
by Halm, Heinz
fromHandbuch der Orientalistik
The empire of the Mahdi: the rise of the Fatimids
by Halm, Heinz
fromHandbuch der Orientalistik
Building on the two previous editions of his History of the Maghrib, Professor Abun-Nasr has written a completely new history of North Africa within the Islamic period which begins with the Arab conquest and brings the story up to the present day. He emphasises the factors which…
"The book traces the rise of the Fatimid dynasty in the fourth century A.H./tenth century C.E., from its origins in Islamic messianism to power in North Africa and Egypt, and a central position of influence throughout the Muslim world." "The first part deals with the problem of …
