Al-Hafiz
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Abūʾl-Maymūn ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanṣir, better known by his regnal name as al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh, was the eleventh Fatimid caliph, ruling over Egypt from 1132 to his death in 1149, a
Gold dinar of al-Hafiz, minted at Alexandria in 1149
The Bab al-Nasr gate in Cairo, photographed in 1867
Al-Zafir
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Abū Manṣūr Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ, better known by his regnal name al-Ẓāfir bi-Amr Allāh or al-Ẓāfir bi-Aʿdāʾ Allāh, was the twelfth Fatimid caliph, reigning in Egypt from 1149 to 1154, and the 22nd ima
Al-Hafiz
…Fatimid dynasty. Al-Hafiz was succeeded by the youngest and only surviving of his five sons, the 16-year-old Abu Mansur Isma'il, with the regnal name al-Zafir bi-Amr Allah. Al-Hafiz was the last Fatimid caliph who rose to the throne as an adult. The next three Fatimid imam-caliphs, until the end of the dynasty in 1171…
Caliph al-Zafir in conversation with a nobleman (Caliph enthroned). Hafiz-i Abru's Majma al-Tawarikh (The Assembly of History). Timurid Persia, Herat, circa 1425