Abstract
Sira al-Ustadh Jawdhar is a biography of Jawdhar who served the first four Fatimid caliphs and occupied a high position both in the court and in the administration. The character of this work is that the greater part of it consists of quotations from the documents relating to different affairs in which Jawdhar was involved. Therefore, this work provides vivid information about the affairs which took place at the Fatimid court. Among such information, perhaps the especially interesting topics are those concerning the discord in the Fatimid family and the designation of the heir apparent. I have here considered these two topics in an attempt to elucidate the inside affairs of the early Fatimid court.
