The author of the article analyzes one of the most important legal monuments of the Fatimid Caliphate, Da'a'im al- Islam (Pillars of Islam). The specific features of the document are considered, in which two parts are distinguished, Ibadat and Muamalat. In the first part containing the essence of the fundamental concept of Ismaili statehood and law "Wilaya"; the population is classified into Believers (al-mumini) and ordinary Muslims (al-islami); the mechanism of rituals is described. The second part is devoted to issues of a secular nature: the relationship between the state and the population, the regulation of civil, criminal, marriage and family and hereditary relations. Da'a'im al Islam establishes, along with the five general Islamic postulates of faith, two additional ones: Concept of Wilaya and Jihad.
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