The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

The centuries in which the Abbasid caliph remained a symbolic centre while dynasties such as the Buyids, Fatimids and Seljuks ruled, and in which Ibn Sina, al-Biruni and al-Ghazali worked. The museum roughly bounds it from 945 CE to 1171 CE. These boundaries are the museum's own organising convention and are not absolute.

The museum's holdings for this era today include: polities: 2, most frequently appearing figures: 1, buildings: 2.

Polities

• The Fatimid Caliphate (909 CE to 1171 CE)
• The Seljuk Empire (1037 CE to 1194 CE)

Most frequently appearing figures

• Ibn Sina

Buildings

• The Great Mosque
• The Great Mosque (Qal'at Bani Hammad)

This era is still thinly covered in the museum (5 items only), so this page should not be read as a comprehensive survey of it. Its items are being added gradually from primary sources with each new batch.

The era's boundaries are the museum's own organising convention and are approximate. For the wider history of this period, see ^{1 2}.