At its height, the Fatimid Caliphate stretched across the southern Mediterranean, from eastern Morocco to southern Turkey. From their base in Syria in 909, the Fatimids’ Ismaili leaders marched across ...

Egypt’s mediaeval Fatimid rulers are the subject of a new book providing a comprehensive portrait of the dynasty, writes ...

Scuba divers have discovered the largest trove of gold coins ever found off Israel’s Mediterranean coast – about 2,000 pieces dating back more than 1,000 years, the country’s antiquities authority ...

Excavation work near Old Cairo's northern gate in the Gamaliya district could have revealed a segment of the original Fatimid wall. Antiquities minister Mamdouh Eldamaty told Ahram Online that if ...

Abū ʿAlī Manṣū, commonly referred to as Al-Hakim, was the sixth caliph (ruler) of the Fatimid Empire, and a man whose legacy is sharply debated. A dynasty of Arab origin, the Fatimid Caliphate existed ...

Haroun al-Rashid is probably the best-known Caliph but there have been caliphates, starting with the Rashiduns in 632. He is the ruler of the Ummah, an Islamic community ruled by the Shari’ah.

On June 29, 2014, which coincided with the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declared the restoration of the caliphate. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a shadowy figure with a $10 ...