Egypt, kings and rulers, Fiction, Fatimites, History
"The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history's most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah ('the ruler by order of God'), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth century and whose career was a direct reflection of both the tensions within the Islamic dominions as a whole and of the conflicts within his own mind.
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Grave, prestige, bleak and earnest.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Bensalem Himmich
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 215
- Publisher
- American University in Cairo Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781306504126
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Crossing the River 199385% alikeBoth grave, prestige, earnest.
