Community, Culture and Tolerance in a Medieval Islamic Society: the Case of the Fatimids

Lecture by Paula Sanders, Rice University

Given on December 2, 2007

Paula Sanders, Associate Professor of History, and Dean of Graduate and Post Doctoral Studies of Rice University, discusses the question of Tolerance in the Medieval period.  She examines the tolerance between Muslims and religious minorities in Egypt during the Fatimid era (909-1171).

Paula Sanders latest book is Creating Medieval Cairo: Empire, Religion and Architectural Preservation in Nineteenth Century Egypt

Length: 1 hour, 5 minutes

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