Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online Volume 1, Issue 1 | Page 30

2/2/2016

Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online

purpose), but that also goes beyond the time period of composition into the realm of poetic immortality for the Fatimids and asserting their claims
to legitimacy that are portrayed as not only valid but even more credible than the ‘Abbasids” (p. 73). Ibn al-Mu‘izz achieves these objectives by
employing historical examples borrowed from the sirah literature that emphasize the status of ‘Ali b. Abi T [X