Isma'ili Shia caliphate that rose in Ifriqiya and built Cairo as its imperial capital.
The Fatimid Caliphate was abolished by Saladin in September 1171 CE: the last caliph al-Adid died on 13 September 1171 and Saladin transferred allegiance to the Sunni Abbasid caliph, founding the Ayyubid Sultanate in its place.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Fatimid Caliphate — the shape you scrub through changes in 909 · 969 · 1044.
A modern political history of the Fatimid caliphate and its rule of Egypt.
The Fatimid rise in Ifriqiya and the foundation of the caliphate.
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