Fatimid Caliphate was an Ismaili Shia caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries AD.
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Fatimid Caliphate was an Ismaili Shia caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries AD.
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Fatimid dynasty came to power as the leaders of Isma'ilism, a revolutionary Shi'a movement "which was at the same time political and religious, philosophical and social", and which originally proclaimed nothing less than the arrival of an Islamic messiah.
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Fatimid established an Isma'ili theocratic state based in Tazrut, operating in a way similar to previous Isma'ili missionary networks in Mesopotamia but adapted to local Kutama tribal structures.
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Ziyadat Allah III stepped up anti-Fatimid propaganda, recruited volunteers, and took measures to defend the weakly-fortified city of Kairouan.
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Fatimid established a new, Isma'ili Shi'a regime on behalf of his absent, and for the moment unnamed, master.
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Fatimid was accompanied by Ziri ibn Manad, the leader of the Zirids.
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Nevertheless, by the time of al-Mahdi's death in 934, the Fatimid Caliphate "had become a great power in the Mediterranean".
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The Fatimid focus on agriculture further increased their riches and allowed the dynasty and the Egyptians to flourish.
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Fatimid opened the Dar al-'Ilm, a library for the study of the sciences, which was in line with al-'Aziz's previous policy of cultivating this knowledge.
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Fatimid ordered or sanctioned the destruction of a number of churches and monasteries, which was unprecedented, and in 1009, for reasons that remain unclear, he ordered the demolition of the Church of the Holy Sephulchre in Jerusalem.
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Fatimid was purportedly murdered, but his body was never found.
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Fatimid's served as his regent until her death in 1023, at which point an alliance of courtiers and officials ruled, with al-Jarjara'i, a former finance official, at their head.
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Fatimid was 7 years old when he came to the throne and thus al-Jarjara'i continued to serve as vizier and his guardian.
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Fatimid returned to San'a where he established his family as rulers on behalf of the Fatimid caliphs.
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In 1062, the tentative balance between the different ethnic groups within the Fatimid army collapsed and they quarreled constantly or fought each other in the streets.
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Fatimid commanded a large contingent of Armenian troops, many of whom were Christian.
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Fatimid attempted to secure the succession of his son to the vizierate as well, but this ultimately failed.
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Fatimid managed to carry out various administrative reforms and infrastructural projects during in the later years of al-Afdal's term, including the construction of an astronomical observatory in 1119.
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Fatimid accepted a pardon from the caliph and remained at the palace.
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Fatimid caliphs were buried in a mausoleum known as Turbat az-Za'faraan, located at the southern end of the eastern Fatimid palace in Cairo on the site now occupied by the Khan el-Khalili market.
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Scholars generally agree that, on the whole, Fatimid rule was highly tolerant and inclusive towards different religious communities.
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The Fatimid state promoted Isma'ili doctrine through a hierarchical organization.
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Cognizant of this, the Fatimid authorities introduced Shi'a changes to religious rituals only gradually after Jawhar's conquest.
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Fundamental change occurred when the Fatimid Caliphate attempted to push into Syria in the latter half of the tenth century.
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The Fatimid period is important in the history of Islamic art and architecture as it is one of the earliest Islamic dynasties for which enough materials survive for a detailed study of their evolution.
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The stylistic diversity of Fatimid art was a reflection of the wider cultural environment of the Mediterranean world at this time.
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Many traces of Fatimid architecture exist in both Egypt and present-day Tunisia, particularly in the former capitals of Mahdia and Cairo .
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Fatimid dynasty continued and flourished under Al-Musta'li until Al-Amir bi-Ahkami'l-Lah's death in 1130.
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