The Fatimid dynasty (Arabic: الفاطميون, romanized: al-Fāṭimiyyūn) was an Arab dynasty that ruled the Fatimid Caliphate, between 909 and 1171 CE. Descended...
47 KB (6,123 words) - 13:17, 28 November 2024
the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shia dynasty. Spanning a large area of North Africa and West Asia, it ranged...
137 KB (17,056 words) - 15:53, 4 January 2025
This is a list of an Arab dynasty, the Shi'ite caliphs of the Fatimid dynasty (909–1171). The Shi'ite caliphs were also regarded at the same time as the...
12 KB (308 words) - 18:59, 6 May 2024
after the conquest of Egypt in 969 the Fatimid dynasty established itself in a new capital there, Cairo. The Fatimid caliphs held not only secular authority...
24 KB (3,602 words) - 17:23, 28 December 2024
The Fatimid army was the land force of the Fatimid Caliphate (909–1171). Like the other armies of the medieval Islamic world, it was a multi-ethnic army...
46 KB (6,395 words) - 15:40, 3 January 2025
Egypt, then ruled by the autonomous Ikhshidid dynasty in the name of the Abbasid Caliphate. The Fatimids launched repeated invasions of Egypt soon after...
66 KB (9,147 words) - 01:28, 18 December 2024
leader of the Fatimid Caliphate and the eponymous founder of the dynasty, the Zirids were emirs who ruled in the name of the Fatimids. The Zirids gradually...
70 KB (7,738 words) - 07:07, 5 December 2024
Banu Hashim (section Dynasties and Tribes)
al-Kamil) Sa'di dynasty of Morocco (through Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya ibn Abdullah al-Kamil) Fatimid Dynasty of the Fatimid Empire. Idrisid dynasty of Morocco...
19 KB (1,227 words) - 09:47, 5 January 2025
The Fatimid harem refers to the harem belonging to the rulers of the Fatimid dynasty during the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt (909–1171). The harem was the...
7 KB (1,025 words) - 13:28, 28 August 2024
Al-Adid (category 12th-century Fatimid caliphs)
'Strengthener of God's Faith'), was the fourteenth and last caliph of the Fatimid dynasty, and the twenty-fourth imam of the Hafizi Isma'ili branch of Shi'a...
32 KB (4,571 words) - 18:29, 20 December 2024
History of Islam (section Fatimid Caliphate)
short-lived, and they were deposed by the Shiite Fatimid dynasty in 909. By around 960, the Fatimids had conquered Abbasid Egypt, building a capital there...
266 KB (28,704 words) - 07:00, 3 January 2025
Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (category Sons of Fatimid caliphs)
fourth Fatimid caliph and the 14th Ismaili imam, reigning from 953 to 975. It was during his caliphate that the center of power of the Fatimid dynasty was...
14 KB (1,713 words) - 18:22, 20 December 2024
Sevener (section Seveners and the Fatimid dynasty)
(Radi Abdullah) (840–881) Abdallah al-Mahdi Billah (881–934) (Founder of Fatimid Caliphate) List of extinct Shia sects Isma'ilism Daftary, Farhad (2007)...
4 KB (241 words) - 05:13, 22 October 2024
Fatimids, as it had almost every other authority preceding them. At the beginning of the 11th century, Buluggin ibn Ziri was installed as the Fatimid...
8 KB (1,052 words) - 01:35, 18 September 2024
was the founding dynasty of the medieval Sultanate of Egypt established by Saladin in 1171, following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt...
129 KB (15,854 words) - 20:40, 2 January 2025
'He who carries out God's orders'), was the second caliph of the Fatimid dynasty, ruling in Ifriqiya from 934 to 946. He was the twelfth Isma'ili Imam...
50 KB (7,522 words) - 18:21, 20 December 2024
gubernatorial dynasties in Egypt which have already been mentioned, the Tulunids and the Ikhshidids, were both of Mamluk origin. The Fatimid Revolution (861-973)...
19 KB (1,884 words) - 23:04, 2 January 2025
Hashim ibn Abd Manaf (section Dynasties)
Qatadah ibn Idris) Abbasid dynasty of the Abbasid Empire (through Abbas ibn Muttalib) Fatimid dynasty of the Fatimid dynasty including the later Agha Khans...
20 KB (2,334 words) - 11:16, 19 December 2024
Cairo-based Fatimid Caliphate, and was a constant enemy of the Rassids - the Zaidi Shi'ite rulers of Yemen throughout its existence. The dynasty ended with...
10 KB (1,216 words) - 07:20, 27 December 2024
Battle of the Blacks (category 1160s in the Fatimid Caliphate)
the black African units of the Fatimid army and other pro-Fatimid elements, and Sunni Syrian troops loyal to the Fatimid vizier, Saladin. Saladin's rise...
23 KB (3,277 words) - 18:40, 10 December 2024
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (redirect from Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim)
successful transfer of power was a demonstration of the stability of the Fatimid dynasty. Al-Hakim's father had intended the eunuch Barjawan to act as regent...
46 KB (5,822 words) - 18:28, 20 December 2024
is founded near Fustat by the Fatimid dynasty. c. 980: Al-Azhar University is established in Cairo by the Fatimid dynasty. c. 980: Queen Gudit leads her...
13 KB (1,507 words) - 19:58, 13 December 2024
Al-Hafiz (category 12th-century Fatimid caliphs)
endangered the very survival of the Fatimid dynasty. At this time, Abd al-Majid was the oldest surviving male of the dynasty. What happened next appears to...
57 KB (8,206 words) - 13:51, 1 January 2025
Abbasid dynasty or the Rashidun caliphs, white represents the Umayyad dynasty, and green represents Islam (or possibly, but it is not certain, the Fatimid dynasty)...
11 KB (1,069 words) - 15:46, 18 December 2024
Ptolemaic Kingdom (redirect from Plolemic dynasty in the future)
Ptolemaic dynasty until the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC. Reigning for nearly three centuries, the Ptolemies were the longest and final dynasty of ancient...
100 KB (12,439 words) - 06:33, 20 December 2024
the foundation of the city (not counting the earlier Fustat) by the Fatimid dynasty in the 10th century, under their fourth caliph, Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah...
12 KB (1,447 words) - 06:25, 18 November 2024
Qadi al-Fadil (category Officials of the Fatimid Caliphate)
the Fatimid state, he quickly sided with the fellow Sunni Saladin during the latter's vizierate, and supported him in deposing the Fatimid dynasty, which...
18 KB (2,513 words) - 13:41, 17 December 2024
Battle of Mecca (1924) Siege of Medina List of caliphs List of Sunni dynasties "الأشراف الهواشم الأمراء - أشراف الحجاز". www.al-amir.info (in Arabic)...
45 KB (949 words) - 16:46, 2 December 2024
10th–12th centuries. As with the dynasty it served, its history is in two phases. The first was c. 909 to 969, when the Fatimids were based in Ifriqiya (modern...
74 KB (11,075 words) - 22:55, 19 December 2024
and the later Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphs along with several of the most prominent Hashemite dynasties in the orient. His father was Kilab ibn...
21 KB (1,597 words) - 01:41, 5 December 2024