al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah Isa ibn al-Zafir
Isa ibn al-Zafir, thirteenth Ubaydid caliph as al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah — a small boy raised in 549 as Egypt's power failed.
Reign · Fatimid Caliphate · no. 7 in the chain · 1154–1160 CE
Ruled the caliphate
Events of the reign
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The extinction of the Almoravid state in al-Andalus, 552
In 552 the Almoravid (Mulaththimun) state in al-Andalus was extinguished — nothing remained to them but the island of Majorca.
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The Kutubiyya mosque at Marrakesh
The Almohad caliph Abd al-Mu'min built the Kutubiyya mosque at Marrakesh about 553/1158 — its minaret the grandest of the Islamic West.
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Nuzhat al-Mushtaq completed, 549 AH
Al-Idrisi completed for Roger II the Nuzhat al-Mushtaq geography in 549/1154 with the celebrated planisphere known as the Tabula Rogeriana.
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Siege of Mahdia (1159–1160)
Draft card for Siege of Mahdia (1159–1160); its sources are not yet checked on the page.