The Fatimid Empire that ruled over parts of North Africa and the Middle East from 909 to 1171 is said to have been a “golden age of Ismaili thought.” It was a pluralistic community ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Hoards of the Fatimid period have been used by scholars to illustrate a variety of macro-historical developments in the eleventh-century ...

and the art of the Fatimid dynasty in North Africa and Egypt. He has written several books with Sheila S. Blair, his wife and co-holder of the Calderwood Chair, with whom he also served as principal ...