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| | Encyclopedia: Fatimid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The Fatimids or Fatimid Caliphate (Arabic اÙÙØ§Ø·Ù
ÙÙÙ) is the Ismaili Shiite dynasty that ruled much of North Africa from A.D. 5 January 910 to 1171. |
 | | Under the Fatimids, Egypt became the center of an empire that included at its peak North Africa, Sicily, Palestine, Syria, the Red Sea coast of Africa, the Yemen, and the Hejaz. |
 | | Al-Aziz (* 955; â 996) was the fifth Caliph of the Fatimids (975-996). |
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