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He came to power in 953 AD, not long after his father had crushed the Kharijite rebellion of Abu Yazid this gave al-Mu'izz the freedom to focus on expanding the borders of the caliphate. This conquest paved the way for the rise of the Ayyubids under Saladin.ДЄbu Tamim Maad al-Mu'izz li-Dinillah, usually abbreviated to al-Mu'izz, was the fourth caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate. Their last decades were a time of weakness, at times even being forced to pay tribute to Christian Jerusalem, until ultimately Nur ad-Din overran Egypt in 1169. By 1100, the Fatimids only controlled Egypt. The Levant, meanwhile, would be threatened first by Turkic invaders and then by Frankish crusaders. The Zirids, who had governed North Africa after the move to Cairo, declared their independence in 1049 meanwhile, Norman armies conquered Sicily from the Fatimids, over the three decades leading up to 1090. Throughout the eleventh century, Fatimid power would continue to decline. The first of these instances came in the 1020s, when the African portion of the army rioted against the establishment of a Berber-Turk alliance in the army. They developed a multiethnic army of Berbers, Turks, Africans, and Arabs, which served them well in many cases, but also became a political liability as the different groups in the army began feuding. Under al-Mu'izz and his successors, the Fatimid Caliphate recentered around Egypt and the Levant. Under the caliph al-Mu'izz and his general Jawhar, the Fatimids wrested Egypt from the Ikhshidid dynasty in 969, and founded Cairo near the city of Fustat. The fourth and longest-lasting of the Fatimid capitals, though, would be Cairo.

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The Fatimids also founded a series of capitals, including Mahdia (ca.

Upon this conquest, he declared himself Caliph, and his forces soon overran the rest of the Maghreb. After discovering that the Berber subjects of the Aghlabid emirate were restless, al-Mahdi Billah and his da'i Abu Abdallah Shi'i began proselytizing to them around 900 this mission was a resounding success, and in 909, al-Mahdi Billah conquered the Aghlabid capital of Raqqada. The Fatimid Caliphate originated in the region of Ifriqiya, in North Africa. They claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad's wife Fatimah, from whom they derived their name. The Fatimid Caliphate (909 - 1171) was the only Shi'a caliphate in Islamic history.