RT Book T1 Caliph of Cairo: Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, 996 - 1021 A1 Walker, Paul E. 1941- LA English PP Cairo u.a. PB American Univ. in Cairo Press YR 2009 ED 1st publ. UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/617333858 AB "One night in the year 411/1021, the powerful ruler of the Fatimid empire, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, rode out of the southern gates of Cairo and was never seen again. Was the caliph murdered, or could he have decided to abandon his royal life, wandering off to live alone and anonymous? Whatever the truth, the fact was that al-Hakim had literally vanished into the desert." "Yet al-Hakim, through shrouded in mystery, has never been forgotten. To the Druze, he was (and is) God, and his disappearance merely indicated his reversion to non-human form. For Ismailis, al-Hakim was the sixteenth imam, descended from the Prophet, and infallible. Jews and Christians, by contrast, long remembered him as their persecutor, who ordered the destruction of many of their synagogues and churches. Using all the tools of modern scholarship, Paul Walker offers the most balanced and engaging biography yet to be published of this endlessly fascinating individual."--Jacket NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-316) and index CN DT95.78.H34 SN 9774163281 SN 9789774163289 K1 Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh : Caliph of Egypt : 985-approximately 1021 K1 Fatimites K1 Egypt : Kings and rulers : Biography K1 Egypt : History : 640-1250