Michael Brett (2) (1934–)

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Michael Brett is Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa at SOAS, University of London. His publications include The Moors: Islam in the West (1984 with Werner Forman), The Berbers (1996, with E. Fentress), Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib (1999), The Rise of the Fatimids (2001) and vis mere Approaching African History (2013). vis mindre

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The Berbers (1996) 47 eksemplarer

The Moors: Islam in the West (1980) 29 eksemplarer

The Fatimid Empire (The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires) (2017) 16 eksemplarer

The Rise of the Fatimids: The World of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Fourth Century of the Hijra, Tenth… (2000) 9 eksemplarer

Road Atlas of Kenya (1996) 2 eksemplarer

Kruger National Park (Indaba Mini Curio) (1996) 2 eksemplarer

'Fatimid facts' in TLS 5206, 10 Jan 2003 [review of Walker's 'Exploring an Islamic empire: Fatimid history & its… 1 eksemplar

'A veiled drama' in TLS, 4 July 2003 [review of Roberts' 'Battlefield: Algeria, 1988-2002' & Volpi's 'Islam &… 1 eksemplar

Tunisia - Insight Guides 1 eksemplar

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The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 4, c.1024-c.1198, Part 1 (1752) — Bidragyder — 80 eksemplarer

The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 5, c.1198-c.1300 (1999) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer

Insight Guides : Tunisia (1991) — Bidragyder — 24 eksemplarer

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Fødselsdato: 1934
Køn: male
Nationalitet: UK

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The Fatimid Empire af Michael Brett

The Fatimids were a Shi'ite dynasty who claimed descent from Muhammad's daughter Fatima - thence the name - and got started as a messianic movement in the early tenth century in what's now Tunisia. Their attempt to reunify the Islamic world under their form of Shi'ism failed, but they ended up ruling an empire centred on Egypt until the last caliph was disposed by Saladin during the middle of the twelfth century, and offshoots of their creed lives on to the present day, including the Druze and the Nizaris.

The books is rather heavy going, with a relentless march of names, byzantine politics, and the intricacies of Ismai'ili theology making for a dense text asking for a lot from the reader. While I come away with a much improved understanding of the general career of the dynasty, much of the detail will be forgotten soon enough, if not already.… (mere)