The Fatimids Of Cairo

Follow the rise of the Fatimids—history’s only Shia caliphate—in political and religious opposition... (more)

Follow the rise of the Fatimids—history’s only Shia caliphate—in political and religious opposition to the Baghdad-based Abbasids. Witness the founding of Cairo as the new Fatimid capital, and examine the enlightened leadership of the 4th and 5th Fatimid caliphs, under whom Cairo became the most important city in the Islamic world. (less)