This paper will examine previously unstudied rulings dealing with the aesthetic concepts of ornament in material culture, specifically pictures (ṣuwar) and human representations (tamāthīl). Examining the rulings of Fatimid chief justice al-Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān (d. 974), this paper will provide important context about the permissibility of creating figural imagery in this early dynasty while discussing jurisprudential rulings regarding textiles in al-Nuʻmān’s legal work titled Da‛āʼim al-Islām (The Pillars of Islam). This paper will argue that Al-Nuʻmān’s jurisprudential discourse demonstrates that the early Fatimids were engaged in a contemporary debate about image-making taking place in the medieval Islamic world, and that the Fatimids provided their own justification to permit its practice in their court, while providing categorizations and typologies of image-making. Engaging with textual, jurisprudential, and material cultural sources, this paper will further our understanding of Fatimid perspective on images in art.