Fatimid Caliphate (Nation) AKA الفاطميون
Fatimid Caliphate
1102 AD - 1102 AD
AKA الفاطميون
An Ismaili Shia caliphate of the 10th to the 12th centuries CE. Spanning a large area of North Africa, it ranged from the Red Sea in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west.
The Fatimids, a dynasty of Arab origin, trace their ancestry to the Prophet’s daughter Fatima and her husband ‘Ali b. Abi Talib, the first Shi‘ite imam.
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