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  • Jiwa, Shainool. 2025. “The Fatimid Imam-Caliph al-Qaʿim bi-Amrillah.” Encyclopaedia Islamica. 3rd ed.
  • “The Reign of the Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah: Historiographical Considerations” in Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion, Ed. G Bilotto, F Daftary & S Jiwa (I B Tauris, London, 2025), pp. 45-66.
  • “The Kalbids of Sicily: Stalwarts of Fatimid Ifriqiya” in, ed. N Alshaar (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024), pp. 73-98. (Open Access)
  • “Penning the Foundations: A Comparative Reading of Fatimid Origins Narratives with Abbasid and ʿIbadi texts,” in: Essays in Honour of Carole Hillenbrand, ed. Ali Ansari (2022)
  • Jiwa, Shainool. . In K. Fleet, G. Krämer, D. Matringe, J. Nawas and D. J. Stewart (eds.), , Brill, (2018)
  • “The Baghdad Manifesto: A Re-examination of Fatimid-Abbasid Rivalry,”in Daftary & Jiwa, (Ed.)The Fatimid Caliphate,IB Tauris, London (2017)
  • “Kinship, Camaraderie and ContestationFatimid Relations with the Ashraf in the fourth AH / tenth CE century.”Al-Masaq, Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean(2016)
  • Introduction,People of the Prophet’s House: Artistic and Ritual Expressions of Shi‘i Islam, with F Suleman. (London,鶹 in association with IB Tauris,2015)
  • “From Slaves to Supporters: The role of the Slavs in the Fatimid Mediterranean Empire in the Fourth/Tenth Century CE.” Pontifical Institute,Journal of Medieval Studies(2015)
  • “Governance and Pluralism under the Fatimids (909-996 CE)”, inThe Shi‘i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity, Ed. F Daftary, A Sajoo and S Jiwa, IB Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies (2015)
  • “Fatimid Dynasty” with David Thomas. In . Vol. 8, edited by Hans-Josef Klauck [et al.], 984-988. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014.
  • “Al-‘Aziz bi’llah, the first Fatimid Caliph of Egypt.”. Ed. W Madelung & F Daftary, Brill (London, 2011)
  • “Historical representations of a Fatimid Imam-caliph: Exploring al-Maqrizis’ and Idris’ writings on al-Muizz li Din Allah”. In Published proceedings of the International Conference on the Fatimids and the Mediterranean, Palermo, Italy (2009)
  • “Inclusive Governance: A Fatimid illustration”, inCompanion to the Muslim World, Ed, A Sajoo, IB Tauris in association with 鶹 (2009)
  • “Fatimid-Buyid diplomacyin the reign of the Fatimid Imam-caliph al-‘Azīz billāh”Journal of Islamic Studies, Oxford University, vol. 3, no. 1, pp.55-71. (1992)
  • “.” Bulletin of the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), vol.15, no.1, pp. 50-63. (1988)
  • “The initial destination of the Fatimid Caliphate: Yemen or the Maghrib?” Bulletin of the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), vol.13, no.1, pp. 15-26. (1986)
  • Jiwa, Shainool. 2026. . The Medieval Review, 26.05.08, May 2026
  • Jiwa, Shainool. 2024. “The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue: By Marina Rustow, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020, 598 Pp.” Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 35 (2): 209–11
  • Review: Jiwa,Shainool. 2019.: By Michael Brett, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 339 pp., Vol 46. No 1, March 2020

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