Download or read book Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo written by Paula Sanders and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-03-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an understanding of the complexities of political legitimacy in Islamic dynasties by examining Fatimid political culture in Egypt reconstructed from court rituals. The author approaches ritual as a dynamic process through which claims to political and religious authority in Islamic societies are articulated, and in which complex negotiations of power have taken place.