All Stories

  1. The Birth of New Messianic and Prophetic Movements under the Fatimids

    Article • November 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  2. Preliminary Material

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  3. Al-Ḥākim and the Dhimmīs

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  4. The Doctrine of Taʾwīl in Fatimid Ismaili Texts

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  5. To What Degree Was Classical Ismaili Esotericism Based on Reason as Opposed to Authority?

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  6. Techniques for Guarding and Restricting Esoteric Knowledge in the Ismaili daʿwa

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  7. Science in the Service of the Fatimids and Their Daʿwa

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  8. An Ismaili Answer to the Problem of Worshiping the Unknowable, Neoplatonic God

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  9. Royal Libraries and the Production of Texts

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  10. Social Elites at the Court

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  11. The Caliph al-ʿAzīz and His Daughter Sitt Al-Mulk: A Case of Delayed but Eventual Succession to Rule by a Woman

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  12. Intellectual Currents and Traditions

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  13. Literary Culture

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  14. The Pitti Palace Rock Crystal Ewer and the Sordid Story of How and Why It Came to Exist

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  15. The Relationship between Chief Qāḍī and Chief Dāʿī

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  16. The Responsibilities of Political Office in a Shīʿī Caliphate and the Delineation of Public Duties

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  17. The Role of the Imam-caliph as Depicted in Official Treatises and Documents

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  18. Was the Fatimid Amīr al-Juyūsh in fact a Wazīr?

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  19. Introduction

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  20. Islamic Ritual Preaching (Khuṭbas) in a Contested Arena: Shīʿīs and Sunnīs, Fatimids and Abbasids

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  21. Ismaili Polemics Against their Opponents

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  22. Conflict with the Ibāḍīs and the Ibāḍī Version of the Imamate in North Africa and in the East

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  23. Portrayals of the Umayyads in Official Pronouncements and in Daʿwa Literature

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  24. The Abbasid-Fatimid Rivalry for Control of the Holy Cities and the Hijāzī Response

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  25. Alexandria as an Entrepôt in the East-West Exchange of Islamic Scholarship

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  26. Egyptian Popular Festivals

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  27. Kutāma, Kalbids and Other Westerners: The Maghāriba in Cairo

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Paul Walker

  28. Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī in Modern Scholarship

    Article • Shii Studies Review, March 2017, Brill

    Paul Walker

  29. Libraries, Book Collection and the Production of Texts by the Fatimids

    Article • Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, January 2016, Brill

    Paul Walker

  30. Al-Ḥākim and the Dhimmīs

    Article • Medieval Encounters, December 2015, Brill

    Paul Walker