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The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan

The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan 206 BOOK REVIEWS history in which the Christian and Jewish minorities as well as the converts constituted major actors. This is nowhere more apparent in this history than in this resurrection of the Fatimids by Badr and his staff who formed a solid alliance between the ‘Men of the Pen’ and the ‘Men of the Sword’. In this period, the latter famously included a well-trained Armenian soldiery. The second text follows suit with this question of the minorities in the Fatimid society and politics by examining the ever changing situation of the Coptic Church and its Monophysite ramifica- tions outside Egypt. This question naturally leads the author to delve into the concept of the Dhimma or protection, and to discuss the particular Fatimid conception of it as a ‘Pact’ (baqt) or treaty cementing the political triad composed by the Caliphate, the See of St Mark (the Coptic Church), and the Christian Nubian kingdom of Muqurra (p.155). The third essay looks at the Fatimid articulation between the government, the army, and the civil society as the anchorage of the Mamluk military regime that in the scholarship tends to be viewed in sharper distinction from the Shi’i predecessor. Finally, Part VI http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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206 BOOK REVIEWS history in which the Christian and Jewish minorities as well as the converts constituted major actors. This is nowhere more apparent in this history than in this resurrection of the Fatimids by Badr and his staff who formed a solid alliance between the ‘Men of the Pen’ and the ‘Men of the Sword’. In this period, the latter famously included a well-trained Armenian soldiery. The second text follows suit with this question of the minorities in the...
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10.1080/09503110.2020.1767875
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206 BOOK REVIEWS history in which the Christian and Jewish minorities as well as the converts constituted major actors. This is nowhere more apparent in this history than in this resurrection of the Fatimids by Badr and his staff who formed a solid alliance between the ‘Men of the Pen’ and the ‘Men of the Sword’. In this period, the latter famously included a well-trained Armenian soldiery. The second text follows suit with this question of the minorities in the Fatimid society and politics by examining the ever changing situation of the Coptic Church and its Monophysite ramifica- tions outside Egypt. This question naturally leads the author to delve into the concept of the Dhimma or protection, and to discuss the particular Fatimid conception of it as a ‘Pact’ (baqt) or treaty cementing the political triad composed by the Caliphate, the See of St Mark (the Coptic Church), and the Christian Nubian kingdom of Muqurra (p.155). The third essay looks at the Fatimid articulation between the government, the army, and the civil society as the anchorage of the Mamluk military regime that in the scholarship tends to be viewed in sharper distinction from the Shi’i predecessor. Finally, Part VI

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Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

Published: May 3, 2020

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