Baghdad Manifesto
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The Baghdad Manifesto was a polemical tract issued in 1011 on behalf of the
Background
The manifesto was the result of the steady expansion of the
This expansion of Fatimid influence to the very doorstep of Baghdad alarmed the Abbasid caliph
Manifesto
He then called an assembly of leading
Based on the work of the earlier anti-Fatimid polemicists Ibn Rizam and Akhu Muhsin, the manifesto instead put forth an alternative genealogy of descent from a certain Daysan ibn Sa'id.[4] The document was ordered read in mosques throughout the Abbasid territories, and al-Qadir commissioned a number of theologians to compose further anti-Fatimid tracts.[2] The manifesto and its list of signatories were reproduced by multiple medieval sources,[5] and during the early 20th century, due to the lack of sources that were not made available until later decades, it was used as a principal source on the origins and early history of the Fatimids.[3]
References
- ^ Daftary 2007, pp. 184–185.
- ^ a b c Daftary 2007, p. 185.
- ^ a b Jiwa 2018, p. 22.
- ^ Daftary 2007, pp. 101–102, 185.
- ^ cf. Jiwa 2018, pp. 23–24
Sources
- ISBN 978-0-521-61636-2.
- Jiwa, Shainool (2018). "The Baghdad Manifesto (402/1011): A Re-examination of Fatimid-Abbasid Rivalry". In Daftary, Farhad; Jiwa, Shainool (eds.). The Fatimid Caliphate: Diversity of Traditions. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. pp. 22–79. ISBN 978-1-78831-133-5.
