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Fāṭimids

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Fāṭimids. Ismāʿīlī dynasty, 909–1171 (AH 297–567), extending from Palestine to Tunisia, which founded Cairo (al-Qāhirah) as its capital in 969 (AH 358). The Fāṭimid Khalīfas were Ismāʿīlī Imāms, the means of God's presence in the world—though the claim of one of them, al-Hākim (d. 1021 (AH 411)) to be God was a claim too far. The dynasty was succeeded by the Ayyubids, founded by Salāḥ ud-Dīn.

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