Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications viii
5. Preface xiii
6. 1. The Origin of Key Shi'ite Thought Patterns in Islamic History 1
7. 2. Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties 14
8. 3. Al- Tha'alibi’s Adab al-muluk, a Local Mirror for Princes 32
9. 4. Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: the Ismaili Experience 47
10. 5. Saladin’s Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New Hypotheses 62
11. 6. The Coming of Islam to Bukhara 77
12. 7. A Barmecide Feast: the Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular Imagination 92
13. 8. The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia 107
14. 9. Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan 129
15. 10. Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources 151
16. 11. Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran 166
17. 12. Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind 178
18. 13. Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth- Century Persia, II: Al- Hurr al-'Amili (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina 192
19. 14. On Sunni Sectarianism 209
20. 15. The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution 226
21. 16. Nationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta- linguistic Discourse 252
22. Bibliography 279
23. Contributors 309
24. Index 313