Fatima Al-Zahraa and the Fatimids

About this book

Between the corridors of history that rang with power struggles and the pursuits of sultans, the voice of writer Abbas Mahmoud Al-Aqqad slips in to tell a story unlike all stories, beginning in the heart of "the House of Prophethood" and extending to make an empire that changed the face of the Islamic world. In this book, we stand not before mere dry historical narration, but before an emotional journey searching in the trace of "prophetic inheritance," and how the features of purity and steadfastness manifested in the person of Lady Fatima Al-Zahraa, to be the nucleus and source from which the "Fatimid state" drew its legitimacy and power. Al-Aqqad progresses in his enchanting style from the warmth of the prophetic house and the maternity of Lady Khadija, may God be pleased with her, reaching the mystery of the Ismaili call that roamed the horizons, and the secret that made the name "Fatima" a banner raised above palaces and pulpits from the lands of Morocco to the heart of Cairo. Was the Fatimid state mere political ambition? Or was it an extension of a deep spirituality and an inheritance that never died? The book dives into analysis.