A Fatimid Text on the Necessity of the Imamate: The Book of Interim Times and Planetary Conjunctions

In this lecture, Alex Matthews (University of Chicago Divinity School) discusses the contents and context of The Book of Interim Times and Planetary Conjunctions and the state of current scholarship on it.

This event was the tenth in the Islamic History and Thought Lecture Series, convened by Dr Fârès Gillon (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London), and took place on Thursday 9 June, 2022.