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* The Fatimids conquer Egypt and move their capital from Kairouan ( in modern Tunisia ) to Fustat, subsequently founding a new capital city just north of Fustat, and naming it Cairo.
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Fatimids and conquer
After Egypt, the Fatimids continued to conquer the surrounding areas until they ruled from Tunisia to Syria, and even ruling Sicily, and southern parts of the Italian Peninsula.
To the Fatimids, North Africa was only a base of operations from which to conquer all Islamic lands, as previously the Abbasids had started out from Khurasan in 747 CE.
The Fatimids conquer Egypt.
Fatimids and Egypt
The eastern Sanhaja included the Kutama Berbers, who had been the base of the Fatimid rise in the early 10th C., and the Zirid dynasty who ruled Ifriqiya as vassals of the Fatimids after the latter moved to Egypt in 972.
Amalric led his first expedition into Egypt in 1163, claiming that the Fatimids had not paid the yearly tribute that had begun during the reign of Baldwin III.
Rival Muslim dynasties such as the Fatimids of Egypt and the Umayyads of al-Andalus were also major intellectual centres with cities such as Cairo and Córdoba rivaling Baghdad.
In 1169 Saladin was appointed as the new vizier of Egypt by the Fatimids and two years later he would seize power from the family of the last Fatimid caliph, al -' Āḍid.
But no sooner was that done, the Fatimids turned their backs on the west, and moved to Egypt, and their new capital in Cairo.
Gumushtigin requested from Rashid ad-Din Sinan, grand-master of the Assassins of Syria, who were already at odds with Saladin since he replaced the Fatimids of Egypt, to assassinate Saladin in his camp.
The Fatimids of Egypt helped the Isma ' ilis maintain dominance in the 11th century through the Sulayhid dynasty founded and brought to peak by Ali al-Sulayhi between 1047-1063.
The Khmer Empire of Cambodia flourished during this century, while the Fatimids of Egypt were overtaken by the Ayyubid dynasty.
* 1004: the library and university Dar Al-Hekma is founded in Egypt under the Fatimids.
Later the Fatimids, a Shi ' a state, arose in Ifriqiya, circa 909 ; the Fatimds eventually conquered and ruled Egypt.
* The Fatimids of Ifriqiya ( modern days Tunisia ) try to seize Egypt from its Abbasid rulers.
Al-Azhar Mosque founded in AD 970 by the Fatimids as the first Islamic University in Egypt.
The Fatimids established the Tunisian city of Mahdia and made it their capital city, before conquering Egypt, and building the city of Cairo in 969.
Under Al-Muizz Lideenillah, the Fatimids entered Egypt ( may refer Fatimid Egypt ) in the late 10th century, conquering the Ikhshidid dynasty, and founding a new capital at al-Qāhira ( Cairo ) in 969.
Under the Fatimids, Egypt became the center of an empire that included at its peak North Africa, Sicily, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Red Sea coast of Africa, Hejaz, and Yemen.
Egypt flourished, and the Fatimids developed an extensive trade network in both the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.
The Fatimids military was originally based largely on the Kutama Berber tribesmen it brought with them on their march to Egypt, and they remained an important part of the Fatimid military even after Tunisia itself began to break away.
Now the Christian army had to deal with armies of North African Muslims called Fatimids, who had adopted the name of the ruling family in Cairo, Egypt.
During his short reign, Godfrey had to defend the new Kingdom of Jerusalem against Fatimids of Egypt, who were defeated at the Battle of Ascalon in August.
The Fatimids of Egypt bought Armenian, Turkic and Sudanese slaves, who formed the bulk of their military and often their administration.
Throughout the next centuries, Egypt was controlled by a variety of rulers, notably the Ikhshidids and Fatimids.
However, he was sent primarily to ensure that Abbasid suzerainty was proclaimed in Egypt which Saladin was reluctant to undertake since he was the vizier of the Fatimids.
Fatimids and move
* The Fatimids move their capital to Cairo.
Fatimids and their
Although people of all creeds enjoyed tolerance and freedom of religion under his rule, he repelled the Fatimids, partly by supporting their enemies in Ifriqiya, and partly by claiming the title Caliph ( ruler of the Islamic world ) for himself.
The Fatimids had assigned the Zirids, a Sanhaja Berber clan centered in Ifriqiya, to keep an eye on their western dominions.
The Fatimids, under the governor of Damascus Manjutakin, scored a series of successes against the Hamdanids and their Byzantine allies, including a major victory against the doux of Antioch, Michael Bourtzes, at the Battle of the Orontes in September 994.
In this way, the Fatimids found their dar al-hijra in North Africa.
* The Fatimids begin the conquest of Sicily over their Aghlabid arch-rivals.
The Fatimids were also known to a great extent for their exquisite arts.
Fatimids paid attention to establishing libraries in their palaces so that the scholars might polish up their knowledge and get benefit of what their predecessors had done.
Fatimids reserved separate pulpits for different Islamic sects, where the scholars expressed their ideas in whatever the manner they liked.
Fatimids put all their military glory and power at the service of the Islamic world and its defense whenever it was menaced with dangers and threats.
The Fatimids were able to meet these threats and repel these attacks with their military power __ both the land forces and naval, especially during the rule of Al-Muizz Lideenillah.
But the armies and the navy of the Fatimids firmly stood against Byzantines, shattered the hopes of their king and defeated them.
In the 1040s, the Berber Zirids ( governors of North Africa under the Fatimids ) declared their independence from the Fatimids and their recognition of the Sunni Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad, which led the Fatimids to launch devastating Banū Hilal invasions.
Fatimids and capital
In 969 the Fatimids were led by General Gawhar al-Siqilli with his Kutama army, under the moral flagship of Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi, the Shiite Ismaili Imam of that time and ancestor of the current Aga Khan, to establish a new capital for the Fatimid dynasty.
* The Fatimids create a new capital in Ifriqiya, Mahdiya.
The Fatimids later moved the capital of Ifriqiya to Mahdia, a city they founded, but then the Zirids returned it to Kairouan.
* Sharaf ad-Dawla al-Muizz ibn Badis ( 1016 – 1062 ) declared independence from the Fatimids 1048, changed capital to Mahdia in 1057 after Kairouan was lost to the Banu Hilal.
The Muslim Mahdia was founded by the Fatimids under the Caliph Abdallah al-Mahdi in 921 and made the capital city of Ifriqiya, by caliph Abdallah El Fatimi.
The Shia Ismaili caliphate of the Fatimids made Egypt their center, and made Cairo their capital.
After the Fatimids conquered the district from the Abbasids, Jerusalem eventually became the capital, and the principal towns were Ashkelon, Ramla, Gaza, Arsuf, Caesarea, Jaffa, Jericho, Nablus, Bayt Jibrin, and Amman.
Fatimids founded the city of al-Qāhiratu " the Victorious " ( Cairo ) in 969 as the new capital of the Fāṭimid caliphate in Egypt.
When the Fatimids transferred their base from Mahdia to Egypt, Bologhine ibn Ziri was appointed viceroy of Ifriqiya, with the capital at Kairouan.
After the Fatimids based themselves in Egypt in the newly-founded capital of Cairo in 969, Al-Mansuriya remained the capital of the Zirids, although it was reduced to rubble in a Sunni uprising in 1016.
The Fatimids appointed the Kalbids as rulers via proxy before they shifted their capital from Ifriqiya to Cairo in 969.
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