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- noun Plural form of
Fatimid .
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After the death of Cleopatra, Egypt would not be the center of empire again until the Fatimids in the 10th century A.D., when Cairo became a leading light of the Islamic world.
Beyond the Pharaohs Joseph Manning 2011
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Previously, the country had been ruled by dynasties and governors either answering to the Caliphate or seeking to become one—the Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, Mameluks, and Ottomans, with the brief interlude of reformer Mohammed Ali in the early nineteenth century.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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From the Al-Rashidun in Abbasids to the Fatimids and the Fatima conspiracies, to the Berbers and beyond to the crusades…
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Certainly the Abbasids -- along with such rival dynasties as the Umayyads of Spain and the Fatimids of Egypt -- were great promoters of learning.
The Islamic Enlightenment Eric Ormsby 2009
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With the collapse of the Fatimids, it probably ended up in Constantinople, and from there was carried off to northern Europe after Crusaders sacked Byzantium—a textbook example of cultural cross-fertilization producing an artistic masterpiece.
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Mosess slaying of the Egyptian in Exodus (2: 12), while also alluding to Saladins uncle, Assudeen Sheerkoh (Shirkuh?), who allied himself with the Fatimids in Egypt to defeat Christian forces in 1169.
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The main threat that the Fatimids posed in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries CE, however, was political and not religious.
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Abridged Analysis) 2006
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Both the Seljuqs and Fatimids severely persecuted them.
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Abridged Analysis) 2006
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Since the Ithna Asharis within the Abbasid Empire were politically weak, the Ismaili Fatimids were the most likely candidates for an invasion.
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis) 2006
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One point, however – if not more – still seems strange about this conflation of the threatened attack by the Ismaili Fatimids of Multan, which never occurred, with the invasions by Mahmud of Ghazni, which did occur.
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Abridged Analysis) 2006
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