Fatimid Great Palaces
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The Great Palaces of the Fatimid Caliphs were a vast and lavish palace complex built in the late 10th century in Cairo, Egypt, to house the Fatimid caliphs, their households, and the administration of
Carved wooden panel with images of animals and humans, believed to have belonged to a door in one of the Fatimid palaces. (On display at the Louvre.)
A pair of wooden beams carved with scenes of animals and humans which belonged to the Fatimid Western Palace. (On display at the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo.)
Al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi
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Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Fatak, better known as al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi, was a senior official of the Fatimid Caliphate in the early 12th century, during the reign of al-Amir.
Gold dinar of al-Amir, minted in Cairo in AH 514 (1119/20 CE)
Façade of the Aqmar Mosque, Cairo
The siege of Tyre by the Crusaders, from a 13th-century French manuscript