This Variorum volume is a collection of articles dealing with Egypt under the Fatimids, originally published in diverse journals and books between 1984 and 2013.
Dr Michael Brett is Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa at SOAS, London.
Introduction
THE HISTORY OF EGYPT
I Writing the History of Egypt for the New Cambridge History of Islam
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, V, Peeters, Leuven, 2007, pp. 1-13.
THE POPULATION OF EGYPT
II The Way of the Peasant
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 47 (1984), pp. 44-56
III Population and Conversion to Islam in Egypt in the Mediaeval Period
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, IV, Peeters, Leuven, 2005, pp. 1-32.
THE MEN OF THE PEN
IV The Execution of Ibn Badus
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, VII, Peeters, Leuven, 2013, pp. 21-9
V The Execution of al-Yazuri
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, II, Peeters, Leuven, 1998, pp. 15-27
FATIMID DIPLOMACY
VI Translation
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, VII, Peeters, Leuven, 2013, pp. 31-7
VII The Diplomacy of Empire: Fatimids and Zirids, 990-1062
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 78 (2015), pp. 149-59
VIII The Ifriqiyan Sijill of al-Mustan¿ir, 445/1053-4
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, VI, Peeters, Leuven, 2010, pp. 9-16
IX The Poetry of Disaster. The Tragedy of Qayrawan, 1052-1057
K. D'Hulster and J. Van Steenbergen, eds., Continuity and Change in the Realms of Islam. Studies in honour of Professor Urbain Vermeulen, Peeters, Leuven, 2008, pp. 77-89
THE FATIMID RENASCENCE
X Badr al-Jamali and the Fatimid Renascence
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, IV, Peeters, Leuven, 2005, pp. 61-78
XI Al-Karaza al-Marqusiya. The Coptic Church in the Fatimid Empire
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, IV, Peeters, Leuven, 2005, pp. 33-60
XII The Origins of the Mamluk Military System in the Fatimid Period
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, I, Peeters, Leuven, 1995, pp. 39-52
THE FATIMIDS AND THE CRUSADES
XIII The Muslim Response to the First Crusade
S.B. Edgington and L. Garcia-Guijarro, eds., Jerusalem the Golden. The Origins and Impact of the Furst Crusade, Brepols, Turnhout, 2014, pp. 219-34
XIV The Battles of Ramla (1099-1105)
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, I, Peeters, Leuven, 1995, pp. 17-37
XV The Fatimids and the Counter-Crusade, 1099-1171
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, V, Peeters, Leuven, 2007, pp. 15-25
Index