The Fātimids:

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16. ________. The Origins of Isma'ilism: A Study of the Historical Background of the Fatimid Caliphate. Cambridge: 1940.
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22. _______. "Al-Hakim bi Amrallah: the God-King Idea Realised," Islamic Culture 29 (1958): 1-8.
23. Walker, Paul E. Early Shiism: The Ismaili Neoplatonism of Abu Ya'ūb al-Sijistānī. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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