Produced by the Institute of Ismaili Studies (where Daftary is Associate Director), this sumptuously illustrated, oversized volume (10.5x12.5"), offers a thorough and accessible history of the Ismaili
The history of Cairo is usually presented in terms of periods and dynasties such as the Fatimid or Ayyubid. The modern history of Egypt is generally held to begin in the last decades of the nineteenth
