Subject to the caliph, distant from the law the status and role of the coptic community in Fatimid Fustat - by Dina Khaled Abou Salem

Abstract

This thesis studies the status and role of the Coptic community in Fatimid Fusta t and argues that their status and role, although set clear by Islamic Shari'a, and particularly, Ismaili Law, depended as well on the pragmatism of the respect ive caliphs.