Initial Considerations -- Signing the Community -- The Fatimid Public Text and the Sign of Ismàilism -- The Fatimid Public Text in a Changing Political Climate
Summary
Explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language, as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. The author focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean in the 6th-12th centuries, particularly Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index
