الخطاب السياسي الفاطمي تجاه الصليحيين في اليمن في النصف الثاني من القرن 5ه 11 م من خلال السجلات المستنصرية

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The Fatimids were associated with the Sulayhids dynasty, which ruled Yemen with distinct political relations because the two sides belonged to the same ideas and beliefs.

The Mustansiriya letters – which are political and administrative messages sent from the Fatimids writing court in the name of the caliph al-Mustansir to the Sulayhids princes in Yemen - were the instrument that reflected the Fatimids policy toward them.

Due to the importance of these messages, enriched by historical material, and because they are authentic documents containing information from the important historical article on the important relations between the Fatimids and Sulayhids, and reveal the type of political relations between the parties, for all these reasons, I choosed to study them.

In addition, there is a very important reason, whichis the lack of a prior study of these letters, which focuses on their content and their role in the study of Fatimid relations with the Sulayhids.

Despite the importance of these messages, and despite the publication of them for nearly seventy years, the researchers' attention was limited to taking the appropriate material of their studies, not studying it for itself, and the history of the Fatimid political speech towards Yemen has not been studied in-depth to explore and reveal its hidden aspects.

Therefore, my study is the first that focuses on these letters,the curriculum, content and political speech towards Yemen.

The importance of these letters lies in: their abundance, the personal knowledge of the caliph, the length of the period in which they were written, and the diversity of their purposes.

This research focuses on the study of Fatimid political speech towards the Sulayhids through these letters.

From the reading of Mustansiriya letters, it is clear that the Fatimid political speech addressed to the Sulayhids with all its elements, which we will show in the course of this research.

These records thus form the basis for the study of Fatimid political speech towards the Sulayhids.

Hence my choice is to study that speech and through these particular letters.