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This thesis narrates the history of relationships between Karaite and Rabbanite Jews in Egypt, Syria, and Palestine during the eleventh century and asks whether Karaites constituted a sect apart from the Rabbanites in any sociologically meaningful sense of the term. Previous his…

This dissertation examines architectural patronage under the third Egyptian Fatimid caliph, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (r. 386-411/996-1021). The reign of this "psychotic" ruler represents a controversial, yet pivotal moment in the history of sectarian relations in the Islamic world.…

My dissertation project examines the political relationship between the individual, the organization, and the state in the mid-eleventh century Middle East. The mid-eleventh century saw a series of crises that destroyed the independent power of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustansir in…

This dissertation analyzes the Sara'ir al-nut[dotbelow]aqa' (The Secrets of the Speaker-Prophets), a work ascribed to Ja'far b. Mans[dotbelow]ur al-Yaman (d. ca. 960), one of the earliest Isma'ili-Fat[dotbelow]imid missionaries whose work is extant. Ja'far chose unusual objects …