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*’909′ – ‘1171’*
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(932 – 975)
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(1133 – 1154)
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(Arabic: الفاطميون, al-Fāṭimīyūn)
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(the fatimid caliphate was an ‘ismaili shia islamic caliphate’ that spanned a large area of ‘north africa’, from the ‘red sea’ in the east to the ‘atlantic ocean’ in the ‘west’)
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(the dynasty of ‘arab origin’ ruled across the ‘mediterranean coast’ of ‘africa’ and ultimately made ‘egypt’ the center of the ‘caliphate’)
(at its height the caliphate included (in addition to ‘egypt’) varying areas of the ‘maghreb’, ‘sudan’, ‘sicily’, ‘the levant’, and ‘hijaz’)
(the ‘fatimids’ claimed descent from ‘fatimah’, the daughter of islamic prophet ‘muhammad’)
(the ‘fatimid state’ took shape among the ‘kutama berbers’, in the west of the ‘north african littoral’, in ‘algeria’, in ‘909’ conquering ‘raqqada’ (the ‘aghlabid’ capital))
(in ‘921’ the ‘fatimids’ established the tunisian city of ‘mahdia’ as their new ‘capital’)
(in ‘948’ they shifted their capital to ‘al-mansuriya’, near ‘kairouan’ in ‘tunisia’)
(in ‘969’ they conquered ‘egypt’ and established ‘cairo’ as the capital of their ‘caliphate’)
(‘egypt’ became the ‘political’, ‘cultural’, and ‘religious’ center of their ’empire’)
(the ‘fatimid caliphate’ was distinguished by the central role of ‘berbers’ in its initial establishment and in helping its ‘development’, especially on the ‘military/political’ levels)
(the ‘ruling class’ belonged to the ismaili branch of ‘shi’ism’, as did the leaders of the dynasty)
(the existence of the ‘caliphate’ marked the only time the descendants of ‘ali’ and ‘fatimah’ were united to any degree (except for the final period of the ‘rashidun caliphate’ under ‘ali’ himself from ‘656’ to ‘661’) and the name “fatimid” refers to ‘fatimah’)
(the different term fatimite is sometimes used to refer to the caliphate’s subjects)
(after the initial conquests, the caliphate often allowed a degree of ‘religious tolerance’ towards non-ismaili sects of ‘islam’, as well as to ‘jews’, ‘maltese christians’, and ‘egyptian coptic christians’)
(however, its leaders made little headway in persuading the ‘egyptian population’ to adopt its ‘religious beliefs’)
(during the late 1000s + 1100s, the ‘fatimid caliphate’ declined rapidly, and in ‘1171’ saladin invaded its territory)
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(he founded the ‘ayyubid dynasty’ and incorporated the ‘fatimid state’ into the ‘abbasid caliphate’)
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