Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah
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Abu Tamim Ma'ad al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah was the fourth Fatimid caliph and the 14th Ismaili imam, reigning from 953 to 975. It was during his caliphate that the center of power of the Fatimid dynasty wa
Gold dinar of al-Mu'izz, minted in Cairo, 973 AD
Fatimid conquest of Egypt
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Troops of the Fatimid Caliphate under the general Jawhar captured Egypt, then ruled by the autonomous Ikhshidid dynasty in the name of the Abbasid Caliphate, in 969.
Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah
…so given the state of crisis that the incumbent Ikhshidid dynasty found itself in and the inability of the Abbasids to counterattack. The territory fell to the Fatimids in 969 without any great resistance. After he had secured his position, al-Mu'izz transferred the royal residence from Al-Mansuriya to the newly founded…
Gold dinar in the name of the last Ikhshidid ruler, Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad, minted in 968/9 in Ramla, Palestine
Fatimid dinar of al-Mu'izz, minted in al-Mansuriya in 954/5
The interior courtyard of the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, where the conqueror of Egypt, Jawhar, led the Friday prayer after entering Fustat.
View of the al-Azhar Mosque, begun by Jawhar in 970, from the interior courtyard (2013)