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 Bad¿s

Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, VII, Peeters, Leuven, 2013, pp. 21-9

V The Execution of al-Y¿z¿r¿

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 Ifr¿qiyan 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 Qayraw¿n, 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-Jam¿l¿ and the Fatimid Renascence

Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, IV, Peeters, Leuven, 2005, pp. 61-78

XI Al-Kar¿za al-Marqus¿ya. 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