Fatimid in a sentence

Fatimid dynasty, found in Fustat, Egypt. Brooklyn Museum Unlike western European governments in the era, advancement in Fatimid state offices was based more on merit than on heredity.

Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires -- not a Palestinian state.

Al-Maqrizi (d.845/1442) describes how great hills of ashes were formed when the slaves and maids of the Luwata Berber tribe burned the Fatimid books.

Almost two millennia later a Fatimid Berber army would again occupy Egypt from the west, and establish a dynasty there.

A system of government helped update Al Mahdi on the development which took place in North Africa. citation Al Mahdi Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah established the first Imam of the Fatimid dynasty.

By the 1060s, the tentative balance between the different ethnic groups within the Fatimid army collapsed as Egypt was suffering through a serious span of drought and famine.

Continuing a practice started by the Ayyubids, much of the land occupied by former Fatimid palaces was sold and replaced by newer buildings.

Egypt also minted a gold currency called the Fatimid dinar, which was used for international trade.

Egypt had been invaded by King Baldwin I fifty years earlier, and the weak Fatimid Caliphate was forced to pay yearly tribute to Jerusalem.

Fatimid Caliphs gave prominent positions to scholars in their courts, encouraged students, and established libraries in their palaces, so that scholars might expand their knowledge and reap benefits from the work of their predecessors.

Garnet Publishing, p 29. The city named Cairo (Arabic: al-Qahira) was founded to the northeast of Fustat in 959 AD by the victorious Fatimid army.

He was exiled by Fatimid authorities to Aleppo where he died in 1041.

In 965, the Fatimid caliph al-Muizz invaded Morocco one last time and succeeded in establishing some order.

In 969 the Fatimid caliph al-Mu'izz sent his best general Jawhar al-Rumi leading a Kotama Berber army against Egypt. He managed the conquest without great difficulty.

It is arranged, but was not written, chronologically; the first sections to be written were probably the chapters about the invasion of Egypt in 1167, which are extremely detailed and were likely composed before the Fatimid dynasty was overthrown in 1171.

It was founded as a mosque by the Fatimid commander Jawhar at the orders of the Caliph Al-Muizz when he founded the city of Cairo.

Jerusalem thus turned its attention to Egypt, where the Fatimid dynasty was suffering from a series of young caliphs and civil wars.

Morocco was fragmented in the aftermath, with Fatimid governors, Idrisid loyalists, new puritan groups and interventionists from Umayyad al-Andalus all fighting over the region.

Reuter, pg. 254 However, this policy necessarily meant war with not only the Byzantine Empire but the Muslim Fatimid Caliphate as well, who claimed southern Italy as within their sphere influence.

Tax collecting was leased to Berber overlords, who were soldiers who had taken part in the Fatimid conquest in 969 CE.