Qadi al-Nu’man’s Iftitah al-Da’wa: Fatimid Foundational Narratives and the Silencing of Dissent within the Da’wa Buyid Representations of the Fatimids: Articulations of Legitimacy between Rival Shi’i States The Pre-Fatimid Isma’ili Da’wa in the Maghrib: Exploring the Role of Heterodox Movements in the Islamization of the Middle East Arabizing the Persian Legacy of the Buyids: ‘Adud al-Dawla, Bahram Gur, and the Lost Origins of the Daylamites Remembering the ‘Shi’i Century’: The Fatimids, Buyids, ‘Abbasids, and local reactions to Tenth-century ‘Sectarianism’ Conflict and Exchange on the Frontier: Paper Making and the Myth of the Battle of Talas