A prolific writer, al-Kirmani was one of the most learned Ismaili theologians of the Fatimid times. |
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The first of these Caliphs was al-Aziz, who was the first of the Fatimid caliphs to begin his reign in Egypt. |
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He came to Egypt in 1168 as an assistant to his uncle, who was a general and then became the vizier of the last Fatimid caliph. |
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Local administration continued with little change, and the country's prosperity is reflected in the richness of Fatimid art and architecture. |
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This marks the beginning of the Fatimid dynasty, which eventually was based at Cairo, though the Fatimids conquered much of North Africa as well. |
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Many rock-crystal objects made during the Fatimid period were later acquired by church treasuries, and often adapted for reliquaries. |
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Cairo was the Fatimid capital and thus the likeliest place that an object of such quality would have been made. |
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Thus, a Crusader player controlling Acre could not use Acre to extend his LOC by sea if there is a Fatimid Fleet sitting in that Sea Zone. |
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In addition, the Fatimid script used in the epigraphic inscription is a reliable distinguishing mark. |
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The architecture is Fatimid, bearing resemblance to buildings in Cairo. |
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The inscription has been carved in the angular kufic script often used for epigraphy on buildings in the Fatimid period. |
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These have been assigned to the reign of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustansir based on comparisons with other media such as textiles. |
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A world-famous name in the heart of Fatimid Cairo, this is one of the oldest markets in Egypt. |
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The Fatimid caliphs belonged to the Shia tradition, which claimed descent from the fourth Caliph, Ali, and his wife Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet. |
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In 910, Obaïd Alla Al Mahdi entered Kairouan and announced the founding of the Fatimid caliphate in the Maghreb. |
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It is assumed that textile fragments with this type of decoration and epigraphic detail were produced in Fatimid Egypt. |
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Some researchers believe that this piece could have been imported from Fatimid Egypt. |
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Fatimid caliphs paid great attention to the textile industry and appointed a master of Tiraz to supervise textile affairs. |
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These decorations indicate the apex of beauty attained in the art of vegetal decoration at the end of the Fatimid period. |
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However, this piece is technically and decoratively different from Fatimid and Zirid pendants. |
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The shape of this lamp is typical of those found at the city of Fustat in Fatimid Egypt. |
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Artistically, it is carved on all four sides with Qur'anic verses in the typical Fatimid floriated kufic script. |
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Known in Fatimid Egypt, they spread throughout southern Italy after the fall of the Fatimids. |
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One such story narrates that the Fatimid Caliph al Hakim Bi-Amr Illah wanted to light the streets of Cairo during Ramadan nights. |
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That was the year when Fatimid invaders began to build a grand enclosure to house their new mosques and palaces – a private city known to its residents as al-Qahera, and eventually to the world as Cairo. |
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Al-Azhar itself was a Shia institution when it was founded under the tenth-century Shia Fatimid dynasty, before being closed and reopened under Sunni rulers as a place for their own sect. |
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The beam bears an inscription in Fatimid foliated kufic script within a rectangular frame that begins and ends with a tapered recess. It is decorated and the text is carved in relief. |
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The other, like the outer edge, shows a succession of small seeded protuberances of Fatimid construction with fretwork filigree ornamentation in which a central motif made up of two opposed spirals stands out. |
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Various types of textile production flourished during the Fatimid period, and silk was used extensively in the decoration and embellishment of textiles. |
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The filigree technique used to decorate these earrings was widely used in the Fatimid period for the decoration of jewellery and in the applied arts in general. |
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The style of carving and decoration on this panel closely resembles that used in the decoration of the panels of the Fatimid door whose provenance has been narrowed down to Egypt. |
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Cotton textiles with silk embroidery were produced in court workshops in Fatimid Egypt and were called tiraz because of the inscriptions which often gave the name of the workshop and the ruler. |
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Only a general date can be offered to place it within the Fatimid period. |
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The building was then neglected for unknown reasons until the Fatimid period, when it was transformed into an establishment for teaching the sciences. |
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When Al-Moïz transferred the seat of the Fatimid caliphate to Egypt, he left the Maghreb in the hands of Bulugguin Ibn Ziri, a Berber leader from the Sanhaja tribe. |
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Naval Transport may not take place in Winter Turns unless it originates from one of the Deep Ports or the Fatimid Box, and ends in another such location. |
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In the Second Crusade, the Fatimid Box is out of play. |
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May immediately activate a Leader-led Fatimid Army as if it were his own. |
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The Idrissids were ousted in 927 by the Fatimid Caliphate and their Miknasa allies. |
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Syed Azhar Rizvi celebrates being an active member of the Fatimid Foundation, which fights thalassemia and other genetic blood disorders. |
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The final century of Fatimid rule, commencing with the vizierate of Badr al-Jamali, transformed Cairo architecturally. |
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The monumental inscription and the typography of the individual letters can be compared to other monumental inscriptions that were created in Egypt during the late Abbasid or Fatimid periods. |
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The camp in collaboration with Fatimid Foundation on Wednesday also aimed to provide awareness and prevention of Thalassaemia in Pakistan. |
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In 1998 the Institut du monde arabe held the first international exhibition on Fatimid art in Paris, which was commemorated in an important catalogue. |
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Academics speculate that this sumptuous object was commissioned by the rising Fatimid dynasty as a gift to the Byzantine emperor, proclaiming Fatimid power. |
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In the same period as William the Conqueror conquered England, Norman adventurers led by Robert Guiscard had taken Sicily, previously under the Arab Fatimid Caliphate. |
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The Ayyubid dynasty overthrew the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt. |
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