Fatimid Caliphate

Fatimid Islamic Caliphate
Fatimid Islamic Caliphate; الدولة الفاطمية; ad-Dawlat al-Fāṭimiyya
	909–1171
	Fatimid green banner.
Caipital	Raqqada (909–921); Mahdia (921–948); al-Mansuriya (948–973); Cairo (973–1171);
Common leids	Arabic (offeecial), Berber
Releegion	Ismaili Shia Islam
Govrenment	Caliphate
Caliph
• 909–934 (first)	al-Mahdi Billah
• 1160–1171 (last)	al-'Āḍid
Historical era	Early Middle Ages
• Established	Januar 5 909
• Foondation o Cairo	August 8, 969
• Disestablished	1171
Aurie
969	4,100,000 km2 (1,600,000 sq mi)
Population
•	6,200,000
Currency	Dinar
Precedit bi	Succeedit bi
	Abbasid Caliphate
	Aghlabid Emirate
	Ikhshidid Wilayah
	Emirate o Tahert
Ayyubid Sultanate
Outremer
Emirate o Sicily
Zirid Emirate
Hammadid Emirate
The day pairt o	Countries today Algerie; Egyp; Israel; Italy; Lebanon; Libie; Maltae; Palestinian National Authority; Saudi Arabie; Tunisie; Jordan; Sirie ;

The Fatimid Caliphate (Arabic: الفاطميون‎, al-Fāṭimīyūn) wis a Shia Islamic caliphate, which spanned a muckle aurie o North Africae, frae the Reid Sea in the east tae the Atlantic Ocean in the wast.

References

↑ Ibn Hammad (d. 1230) in Akhbar al-Muluk Bani Ubayd (ed. Paris, 1927, p. 57) mentions that Ismail al-Mansur in 948 after his victory over Abu Yazid was met at Kairwan by the notables mounted on fine horse and carrying drums and green flags. While green is often referred to as the dynastic colour of the Fatimids, it appears that the Fatimid caliphate did also use white, in opposition to the black used by the Abbasid caliphate. "The Ismaili Shiʿite counter-caliphate founded by the Fatimids took white as its dynastic color, creating a visual contrast to the ʿAbbasid enemy ... white became the Shiʿite color, in deliberate opposition ot the black of the ʿAbbasid 'establishment'." Jane Hathaway, A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen, 2012, p. 97f.
↑ Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall, Thomas D (December 2006). "East-West Orientation of Historical Empires" (PDF). Journal of world-systems research. 12 (2): 219–229. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 22 Februar 2007. Retrieved 9 Januar 2012.

[1] Ibn Hammad (d. 1230) in Akhbar al-Muluk Bani Ubayd (ed. Paris, 1927, p. 57) mentions that Ismail al-Mansur in 948 after his victory over Abu Yazid was met at Kairwan by the notables mounted on fine horse and carrying drums and green flags. While green is often referred to as the dynastic colour of the Fatimids, it appears that the Fatimid caliphate did also use white, in opposition to the black used by the Abbasid caliphate. "The Ismaili Shiʿite counter-caliphate founded by the Fatimids took white as its dynastic color, creating a visual contrast to the ʿAbbasid enemy ... white became the Shiʿite color, in deliberate opposition ot the black of the ʿAbbasid 'establishment'." Jane Hathaway, A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen, 2012, p. 97f.

[2] Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall, Thomas D (December 2006). "East-West Orientation of Historical Empires" (PDF). Journal of world-systems research. 12 (2): 219–229. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 22 Februar 2007. Retrieved 9 Januar 2012.

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