Battle of Ascalon
... Territory changes: {{{territory}}} Combatants Kingdom of Jerusalem Fatimids Commanders Godfrey of Bouillon al-Afdal Shahanshah ... Background The crusaders had negotiated with the Fatimids of Egypt during their march to Jerusalem ... satisfactory compromise could be reached – the Fatimids were willing to give up control of ... in Jerusalem. Jerusalem was captured from the Fatimids on July 15, 1099, after a long ... Antioch the previous year. The battle The Fatimids were led by vizier al-Afdal ...
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Zirid
... modern Tunisia), initially on behalf of the Fatimids, for about two centuries, until weakened by ... this tribe served as vassals of the Fatimids, defeating the Kharijite rebellion of Abu Yazid ... of Algiers, with Fatimid support. When the Fatimids moved their base to Egypt in 972 ... lives in rebellions in Ifriqiya, and the Fatimids encouraged the defection of Tripolitania from the ... Abbasids of Baghdad as rightful Caliphs. The Fatimids sent the Bedouin tribes of Banu ...
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Rise of Islam in Algeria
... s demise under the assault of the Fatimids. Fatimids In the closing decades of the ninth ... from whom the caliph claimed descent. The Fatimids turned westward in 911, destroying the imamate ... to this day. For many years, the Fatimids posed a threat to Morocco, but their ... city of Cairo as his capital. The Fatimids left the rule of Ifriqiya and ...
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Fatimid
Fatimid The Fatimids or Fatimid Caliphate (Arabic الف ... CE 5 January 910 to 1171. The Fatimids had their origins in the Tunisia area ... they moved their capital there. Under the Fatimids, Egypt became the center of an empire ... the Yemen, and the Hejaz. Under the Fatimids Egypt flourished and developed an extensive trade ... built capital in Tunisia, named Mahdia. The Fatimids entered Egypt in 972, conquering the ...
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First Crusade
... were controlled by the Arab Shi'ite Fatimids, whose empire was significantly smaller since the ... advised the crusaders to work with the Fatimids against their common Seljuk enemies. The Fatimids, at this time ruled by caliph al ... the crusaders were on the march. The Fatimids did not, at first, consider the crusaders ... been recaptured from the Seljuks by the Fatimids of Egypt only the year before. ...
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Battle of Ramla
... divisions charged first and were defeated; the Fatimids outflanked the crusaders and attacked the foot ... city, which was being besieged by the Fatimids. The foot-soldiers stood their ground against ... same divisions and were again outflanked. The Fatimids were joined by Tughtugin of Damascus in ... then led a victorious charge against the Fatimids in the vanguard.
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Al-Muizz ibn Badis
... of his aunt. The relationship with the Fatimids was strained, when in 1027 they supported ... were compelled to pay annually to the Fatimids (one million gold dinars a year). When ... Caliphs in 1045, the break with the Fatimids was complete. The Fatimids then deported the Bedouin tribes of the ...
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Islam in Algeria
... usurpers. They were destroyed by the Shia Fatimids in 909, but their doctrine was reestablished ... it convinced the Kutama of Kabylie, the Fatimids' Ismaili doctrine remained unpopular in most of North Africa, and the Fatimids themselves abandoned Algeria for Egypt as soon ... had spread widely in the Maghreb. The Fatimids took their revenge by sending the Bedouin ...
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Miknasa
... to fight off the attacks of the Fatimids. However, when the Miknasa chief Al-Mutazz allied himself with the Fatimids, the Miknasa were driven out of Sijilmasa ... group of Miknasa were allied with the Fatimids against the Umayyads, and overthrew the Rustamids ...
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Ziri ibn Manad
... tribe who, as an ally of the Fatimids, defeated the rebellion of Abu Yazid (943 ... which endeavour he was supported by the Fatimids with craftsmen and architects. His son Buluggin ... Viceroy of Ifriqiya (972-984) when the Fatimids transferred their court to Egypt.
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