<Articles>The Office of Vizier in the first Half of the Fatimids in Egypt

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  • <論説>エジプトにおけるファーティマ朝前半期のワズィール職
  • エジプトにおけるファーティマ朝前半期のワズィール職
  • エジプト ニ オケル ファーティマチョウ ゼンハンキ ノ ワズィールショク

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The Fātimids, after the conquest of Egypt, set up the centralized administrative machinery, and then the office of vizier was founded for attending to political affairs. Afterward this office changed its character, when Badr al-Jamālī took office in the period of the caliph Al-Mustansir. This article aims at elucidating the actual conditions of the office of vizier in the first half of the dynasty. The real power of vizier fluctuated and its position was precarious, so far as we see the changes after its foundation. But throughout the first half it was characterized by the invariable facts; the office was occupied by the professional bureaucracy and its competence was restricted to administrative affairs. And the duties of vizier, as a head of the central government, corresponded to the requirements of the objective circumstances, and so, on the one hand, functioned as "intermediary" between the caliph and his subject, on the other, dealt with the supervision and the direction of the various spheres such as finance, military administration, civil administration, diplomacy, and military activities.

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  • 史林

    史林 61 (6), 859-889, 1978-11-01

    THE SHIGAKU KENKYUKAI (The Society of Historical Research), Kyoto University

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