Method in Madness: Recontextualizing the Destruction of Churches in the Fatimid Era
The reign of al-Hakim bi-ʾAmr Allah (r. 996-1021) is often dismissed as a psychotic blip in the history of multiconfessional relations in the medieval Islamic world. Al-Hakim infamously embarked on a large-scale destruction of churches in his realm, including the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jer...
Veröffentlicht in: | Muqarnas |
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2014
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Muqarnas
Jahr: 2014, Band: 30, Heft: 1, Seiten: 119-139 |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Cairo
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem
The Church of Saint Mennas, Cairo
The Church of Saint Mercurius, Cairo
Coptic Architecture
Covenant of ʿUmar
dhimma
Fatimid
Al-Hakim bi-ʾAmr Allah
The History of the Patriarchs
Al-Kirmani (d. 1021)
Sectarianism
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Zusammenfassung: | The reign of al-Hakim bi-ʾAmr Allah (r. 996-1021) is often dismissed as a psychotic blip in the history of multiconfessional relations in the medieval Islamic world. Al-Hakim infamously embarked on a large-scale destruction of churches in his realm, including the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. This article draws on a variety of sources to argue that rather than being reductively attributable to a personal psychological imbalance, al-Hakim’s dramatically negative treatment of churches signaled a general shift from an esoteric form of Ismaili Shiʿism to one more appealing to the broader Islamic umma. |
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ISSN: | 2211-8993 |
Enthält: | In: Muqarnas
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22118993-0301P0007 |