Fatimid caliphat

**Rodion Romanovich** · 04-21-2006, 13:26

The problem with Great Moravia is that I can't find any info about them at all, and nobody seems willing to help getting research for it. So I think fatimids are better, because there's more research available thanks to almazor's help

**beauchamp** · 04-21-2006, 14:11

Im totally for another Islamic Faction, its just that it might be difficult to find certain units etc. Also, I don't think the Nizars were working with the Fatimids. The Ghazi infantry should work fine.

**palissa** · 04-21-2006, 14:56

I agree on fatimid, because i have already more than half of the units done...
Can provide pictures for some of those units?
I am not great at imagining how can be a fatimid...

**beauchamp** · 04-21-2006, 17:40

Ill correct myself. They had Nizars because they were Shi'a. This means that the much beloved and most awsome Hashishin worked under their rule. Their capitol was Cairo, and their empire streched from Maraketch to Mecca and Damascus. It even included Sicily. This faction will mostly include Ghazi soldiers (fanatical infantry) and Mamluk's (eventually the Mamluk's take power etc. etc.). If I may be so bold to Let me stress again the length of their empire, it goes from Morocco to Mecca and Damascus, I think it would a crime to not include these guys.

(a RARE manuscrpit of Fatimid soldiers)

This is a good site with Osprey like pictures:
http://www.dbaol.com/armies/army_118_figure_1.htm

Anyway, thats my 2 cents. Call on me if help is wanted...

**almazor** · 04-21-2006, 19:37

Al-Aziz (955–996) (Arabic: العزيز بالله) was the fifth Caliph of the Fatimids (975–996).
Abu l-Mansur Nizar al-Aziz acceded to the Caliphate with the help of Jawhar as-Siqilli. Under Al-Aziz the Fatimid Empire stretched as far as Palestine and Syria (from 977/978). Mecca and Medina also acknowledged the suzerainty of the Fatimids.
The reign of Al-Aziz was culturally significant. His grand Vizir Yaqub ibn Killis 979-991 founded the al-Azhar University in Cairo (988) which went on to become the most important centre of learning in the Islamic world. Likewise a library with 200,000 volumes was built in Cairo.
Al-Aziz died on the 13th October 996. His son Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (996-1021) succeed him as Caliph.after his the nizaris sect(shia sect) apear:
The Nizārī (Arabic النزاريون) are a sect of Sevener Ismā'īlī Shīˤa Islām.

The Nizāriyya differ from the Sevener Mustaˤliyya in that they believe that the successor-Imām to the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir was his elder son an-Nizār. However, the Fatimid Regent appointed al-Mustansir's younger son al-Mustaˤlī as caliph and as a result, an-Nizār died in prison when he attempted to claim the throne by rebellion.
One (in)famous group of Nizāriyya were the "Assassins" of Alamūt under the leadership of Dāˤī Hassan as-Sabbaħ ((c. 1034-1124)).
The current Nizārī Imām is His Highness The Prince Aga Khan IV, Mowlana Shah Karim al-Hussayni Hazir Imam.

i add nizaris because they were shia and ghazis are sunni,i think i will add ghazy to abassides.

**cutepuppy** · 04-21-2006, 20:02

maybe this can be a help:

http://www.geocities.com/hoplongr/FATIMID_DYNASTYi.htm

a nice variety of infantry, I might say.

**almazor** · 04-23-2006, 22:16

fatimid appear in tunisia after they move to egypt and they built cairo,before that the berbers were the major power in the fatimids armies,but after the moving to egypt the number of arabs and nubians increased and we found armenians and slavs. i don't know if we must add another berbers units or nubians like abyssinians guards?