Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah made a career in public life at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah as 6th Fatimid caliph (r. 996–1021) and 16th Ismaili Imam.
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah was born at Cairo in 985. His recorded nationality is Fatimid Caliphate.
Learning then moved through courts, monasteries and madrasas, and reach depended on which libraries and translations lay within travelling distance.
He worked as governor and imam.
Political reputations are settled slowly, and rarely by the people who made them.
Working from Fatimid Caliphate shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah died in 1021, aged 36. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Worked as governor and imam
.jpg)
