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orations of the fatimid caliphs
The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Ismaili Texts and Translations Series, 10
Editorial Board: Farhad Daftary (general editor), Wilferd Madelung
(consulting editor), Nader El-Bizri, Heinz Halm, Abbas Hamdani,
Hermann Landolt, Mehdi Mohaghegh, Roy Mottahedeh, Azim Nanji,
Ismail K. Poonawala, Ayman F. Sayyid, Paul E. Walker
Previously published titles:
1. Ibn al-Haytham. The Advent of the Fatimids: A Contemporary Shiʿi
Witness. An edition and English translation of Ibn al-Haytham’s
Kitāb al-Munāẓarāt, by Wilferd Madelung and Paul E. Walker
(2000).
2. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Shahrastānī. Struggling with
the Philosopher: A Refutation of Avicenna’s Metaphysics. A new
Arabic edition and English translation of al-Shahrastānī’s Kitāb
al-Muṣāraʿa, by Wilferd Madelung and Toby Mayer (2001).
3. Jaʿfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman. The Master and the Disciple: An Early
Islamic Spiritual Dialogue. Arabic edition and English translation
of Jaʿfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman’s Kitāb al-ʿĀlim waʾl-ghulām, by James
W. Morris (2001).
4. Idrīs ʿImād al-Dīn. The Fatimids and their Successors in Yaman:
The History of an Islamic Community. Arabic edition and English
summary of Idrīs ʿImād al-Dīn’s ʿUyūn al-akhbār, vol. 7, by Ayman
Fuʾād Sayyid, in collaboration with Paul E. Walker and Maurice A.
Pomerantz (2002).
5. Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī. Paradise of Submission: A Medieval Treatise on
Ismaili Thought. A new Persian edition and English translation of
Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī’s Rawḍa-yi taslīm, by S. J. Badakhchani with an
introduction by Hermann Landolt and a philosophical commen-
tary by Christian Jambet (2005).
6. al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān. Founding the Fatimid State: The Rise of an
Early Islamic Empire. An annotated English translation of al-Qāḍī
al-Nuʿmān’s Iftitāḥ al-daʿwa, by Hamid Haji (2006).
7. Idrīs ʿImād al-Dīn. ʿUyūn al-akhbār wa-funūn al-āthār. Arabic
critical edition in 7 volumes by Ahmad Chleilat, Mahmoud
Fakhoury, Yousef S. Fattoum, Muhammad Kamal, Maʾmoun al-
Sagherji and Ayman Fuʾad Sayyid (2000–2008).
9. Ḥamīd al-Dīn Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Kirmānī. Master of the
Age: An Islamic Treatise on the Necessity of the Imamate. A critical
edition of the Arabic text and English translation of Ḥamīd al-Dīn
Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Kirmānī’s al-Maṣābīḥ fī ithbāt al-imāma,
by Paul E. Walker (2007).
Orations of the Fatimid Caliphs:
Festival Sermons of the Ismaili Imams
by
Paul E. Walker
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3. Khuṭba of al-Manṣūr:
As walī li’l-ʿahd (Heir-apparent) on the ʿĪd al-fiṭr, 334
(6 May 946) at al-Mahdiyya 95
4. Khuṭba of al-Manṣūr:
On Friday 14 Muḥarram 335 (16 August 946). Read by
Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī, the Chamberlain, in the Mosque of Qayrawān 99
5. Khuṭba of al-Manṣūr:
On the ʿĪd al-fiṭr, 335 (25 April 947). During the siege of
Abū Yazīd at Kiyāna 101
6. Khuṭba of al-Manṣūr:
On the ʿĪd al-aḍḥā, 335 (2 July 947).
During the siege of Abū Yazīd at Kiyāna 107
7. Khuṭba of al-Manṣūr:
On the ʿĪd al-fiṭr, 336 (14 April 948) at al-Mahdiyya 112
8. Khuṭba of al-Manṣūr:
On the ʿĪd al-naḥr, 336 (21 June 948) at al-Mahdiyya 120
9. Khuṭba of al-Muʿizz:
On the ʿĪd al-naḥr, 341 (28 April 953) at al-Manṣūriyya 126
10. Khuṭba of al-Muʿizz 135
11. Khuṭba of Qirwāsh:
On 4 Muḥarram 401 (18 August 1010) at Mawṣil 138
12. Khuṭba of al-Āmir:
On a Friday, during Ramaḍān 142
13. Khuṭba of al-Āmir:
On the ʿĪd al-fiṭr 146
Glossary 151
Bibliography 154
English Index 158
Arabic Index
Arabic Texts
Preface and Acknowledgements
Several years ago I received a fellowship award from the National En-
dowment for the Humanities to conduct a study of the imperial rhetoric
in Fatimid public pronouncements. Part of my plan involved collecting
all known copies of decrees, orders, letters, and manifestos issued by
the government, in addition to any other written record of official
communiqués. We possess almost none in their original form but many,
perhaps upwards of 300, exist in various secondary contexts having
been transcribed by clerks of the chancery or by historians and others
for their own purposes. One result of my effort was a preliminary cata-
logue of such materials. Another, however, was the realization of how
important one subset of it could be. Those were the sermons delivered
by the Fatimid imam-caliphs. The great majority of the other documents
were the product of the royal chancery; they were composed by people
employed in it and thus not by the caliphs, at least not directly. This situ-
ation does not diminish the value of such decrees as a true expression of
Fatimid policy; all of them were certainly offered in accord with explicit
orders and each said what the caliph wanted said. But, while voicing his
sentiments and that of the tradition to which the Fatimids ascribed, few
actually conveyed his own words. In short, except for a small handful,
the caliph rarely wrote them himself. In general, however, the opposite
was true of the sermons, which were not only delivered by the imams
in person whenever possible, but also composed by them. Therefore we
have the possibility, in this latter case, of listening to (or more precisely
of reading) the very words of the imams.
The sermon—in Arabic, the khuṭba—was (and is) a standard
feature of Friday congregational observance. It was offered each
and every Friday. The Fatimid caliphs naturally did not deliver such
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xii orations of the fatimid caliphs
sermons that often. However, the duty to do so on the twice-yearly
occasion of the festivals—the two Muslim ʿīds, the feasts of fast-break-
ing and of sacrifice—was taken seriously and seldom missed by the
imams. In later Fatimid times some Friday sermons were added for
Ramaḍān. Yet precious few examples, even of the sermons delivered
by an imam, have survived. Still, those that have come down to us
are more than enough to begin to appreciate the event and the words
uttered on it.
Our principal purpose in this book is, therefore, to provide access
to these sermons by presenting the Arabic originals and complete
English translations of all those now available. To understand their
context it is also necessary to learn as much as possible about the prac-
tice of the khuṭba and its history. For this reason, the first two chapters
are devoted to a history of the Fatimid khuṭba—what was said, by whom
and on what occasions, and to an analysis of the themes and rhetorical
strategies given expression in the surviving examples.
Acknowledgements
It is most important to recognize at the outset the work of Muḥammad
al-Yaʿlāwī. Had it not been for his al-Adab fi-Ifrīqiya fi’l-ʿahd al-
Fāṭimiyya (French title, La literature en Ifriqiya sous les Fatimides,
published in Beirut, 1986) I would, most likely, never have noticed
the importance of these khuṭbas or, more significantly, how many of
them exist. In his book al-Yaʿlāwī assembled all the known examples
of early Fatimid literature—texts which were actually composed in
North Africa during the period of the caliph’s residence there—in-
cluding the sermons, some letters, and poetry.
To better comprehend the Islamic tradition of sermons, I con-
sulted many friends and colleagues. In one instance I organized a
panel of experts on the topic for the Middle East Studies Association
annual meeting (2006). To my fellow panelists, Jonathan P. Berkey,
Philip Halldén, Linda Gale Jones, and Tahera Qutbuddin, I owe
special thanks for having educated me in this subject, either on that
occasion or through their writings.
As I delved ever more deeply into the rituals surrounding the
delivery of these sermons, I came to rely increasingly on Paula
preface and acknowledgments xiii
Sanders’ study of Fatimid ceremonial, Ritual, Politics, and the City in
Fatimid Cairo (Albany, NY, 1994). Ultimately it seemed only natural
to consult her directly. I asked her to read an early version of Chapter
1 and she kindly responded positively, offering queries, corrections,
and new information.
I must also thank Abbas Hamdani who offered me the chance to
participate peripherally in his project to edit and publish Ḥātim b.
Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāmidī’s Kitāb tuḥfat al-qulūb wa farjat al-makrūb. One
of the caliphal khuṭbas included here is found in it alone.
At a late stage I had the opportunity to show the Arabic of these
sermons to Husain Qutbuddin, who, in addition to his own scholar-
ship in the topic of Ismaili commentary on the Qurʾan, is himself a
ḥāfiẓ. Keenly aware of which phrases are verbatim quotations from
the sacred book and which echo or borrow from it, he provided much
needed guidance.
Several other colleagues, especially at the University of Chicago,
generously allowed me to consult them concerning matters arising
from this study, among them Ahmed Hashem, Khaled Keshk, Tahera
Qutbuddin, Saifiyah Qutbuddin and Bruce Craig.
Writing to thank those who helped with a project such as this
months before the final steps of editing and printing means having to
leave out many names that ought to be mentioned but who appear too
late to be included. Given that this book follows another of mine in the
same series (Master of the Age: An Islamic Treatise on the Necessity of
the Imamate), it will not be amiss to cite here the staff of The Institute
of Ismaili Studies, most particularly of the editorial team at the Depart-
ment of Academic Research and Publications, Kutub Kassam, Patricia
Salazar and Fayaz Alibhai, as well as Shellina Karmali of the library, who
provided invaluable help on that book. I can only hope that this volume
will have benefit of as much help and attention as that one did.
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