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God's Command"), was the sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili ... subjects) acted as the virtual head of the Fatimid state. However, after the ...

In 922 he clandestinely sent envoys to the Fatimid caliph Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi ... received a warm welcome by al-Mahdi. The Fatimid caliph accepted the Bulgarian ...

campaigns (1164, 1167, 1168) against the Fatimid rulers of Egypt. Shirkuh ... in campaigns against a faction of the Fatimid caliphate of Egypt in the 1160s ...

the Ismaili Imam in opposition to the 9th Fatimid Caliph-Imam. Hassan acquired ... playing host to some members of the Fatimid caliphate, and this was leaked ...

the west of the country started the Shiite Fatimid movement. Fatimid Obaid ... 1.5km south of Kairouan. However, the Fatimid caliphate transferred to Cairo in 972. ...

[[Image:Fatimids Empire 909 - 1171 (AD).PNG|thumb|The Fatimid Empire ... tradition in the historical legacy of the Fatimid period (where, with some ...

the Abbasids succeeded in grasping the caliphate and establishing the Abbasid ... their letters (letters promising him the caliphate) commenting, "This ...

Madinah. A branch of her family ruled Egypt as the Fatimid Dynasty between 969 and 1171, claiming the title of caliph. The family of the Aga Khan, leader ...

Mahmud's first campaign to the south was against the Ismaili ... of independence from the Abbassid Caliphate. The wealth plundered from ...

and the establishment of the Abbasid caliphate in 750, Damascus was ruled ... In 970, the Fatimid Caliphs in Cairo gained control of Damascus. This ...

The courtly pleasures of the Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid caliphs included belly dancing, soirée and singing. Belly dancers and singers were ...

its residents were ruthlessly massacred. A Fatimid counterattack was repulsed ... and Syria with the Shi'ite Fatimid Caliphate. The Seljuks were nomads ...

towards the east came in the year 1009, when the Fatimid caliph of Cairo, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, had the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem destroyed ...

believed to have originated during the Fatimid Caliphate, where the rule of Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah was acclaimed by people holding lanterns. ...

Fatimid caliph al-Hakim (996–1021) reactivated discriminatory laws ... also attempts to expand the kingdom into Fatimid Egypt. Its kings also held ...

In 638 C.E., Jerusalem was one of the Arab Caliphate's first ... but in the eleventh century, the Egyptian Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah ...

would always be rival dynasties claiming the caliphate, or leadership of the Muslim world, and many Islamic states or empires offering only token obedience ...

for the stability of the later Muslim caliphate. In this, the Islamic empire ... degrees of credibility, such as the Fatimid dynasty of North Africa ...