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1021– 1036 Abū al-Ḥasan aẓ-Ẓahir `Alī ibn al-Manṣur al-Fāṭimī, Seventh Fatimid Caliph. F

• 1) Abū Tamīm al-Mustanṣir Ma`add al-Fāṭimī, Eighth Fatimid Caliph (see below)

1036 – 1094 Abū Tamīm al-Mustanṣir Ma`add al-Fāṭimī, Eighth Fatimid Caliph. In 1058 the Fatimid forces under general al-Basasiri finally achieved the age-old Fatimid goal and seized Baghdad. The Abbasid palace was ransacked, though the Caliph escaped, and the city remained Fatimid for most of the following year. Then the Seljuq Turks returned in force and the Fatimids found themselves back where they had started - but several million dinars the poorer.

Among the last achievements of the Fatimid foreign network was the seizure of the fortress of Alamut in northern Iran by Hasan ibn as-Sabbah in 1090. The group of Shi'ite zealots whom he gathered around himself would come to be feared as the Assassins, long after the fall of Fatimid power.

He died in 1094 and several of his sons claimed the Caliphate - and the Imamate. The following succession dispute and schism tore apart the Fatimid foreign network and ultimately brought down the dynasty. 

• 1) Abū'l-Qāsim al-Musta`lī Aḥmad al-Fāṭimī, Ninth Fatimid Caliph (see below)

1094 – 1101 Abū'l-Qāsim al-Musta`lī Aḥmad al-Fāṭimī, Ninth Fatimid Caliph. In 

• 1) Abū `Alī al-Āmir al-Manṣūr al-Fāṭimī, Tenth Fatimid Caliph (see below)

• 2) Muḥammad al-Fāṭimī, who had issue:

  • a) Abū al-Maymūn al-Ḥāfiẓ `Abd al-Majid al-Fāṭimī, Eleventh Fatimid Caliph (see below)

1101 – 1130 Abū `Alī al-Āmir al-Manṣūr al-Fāṭimī, Tenth Fatimid Caliph. In

He was murdered in 1130. 

1. 1) Aṭ-Ṭayyib ibn al-Āmir al-Fāṭimī. Born in 1130, he was immediately declared his father's successor. Unfortunately his father died months later. The kingmakers in Cairo promptly raised his cousin al-Hafiz to the throne. Politically, that was fine. But religiously it was impossible: an Imam's declaration of their successor was meant to be infallible. To those for whom the Fatimid Caliph was primarily a religious leader aṭ-Ṭayyib was their leader. This was particularly the case in Yemen, which was now lost to the Fatimids. The supporters of aṭ-Ṭayyib still exist in Yemen as the Ṭayyibis and in India as the Bohras.      

1131 – 1149 Abū al-Maymūn al-Ḥāfiẓ `Abd al-Majid al-Fāṭimī, Eleventh Fatimid Caliph. In

From 1130 until 1131 he ruled as Regent, issuing coinage in the name of al-Muntaẓar, "the expected one". Then he took the Caliphate for himself. 

• 1) Abū al-Manṣūr aẓ-Ẓāfir Ismā`īl al-Fāṭimī, Twelfth Fatimid Caliph (see below)

1149 – 1154 Abū al-Manṣūr aẓ-Ẓāfir Ismā`īl al-Fāṭimī, Twelfth Fatimid Caliph. In

• 1) Abū'l-Qāsim al-Fā`iz `Īsā al-Fāṭimī, Thirteenth Fatimid Caliph (see below)

1154 – 1160 Abū'l-Qāsim al-Fā`iz `Īsā al-Fāṭimī, Thirteenth Fatimid Caliph. In

1160 – 1171 Abū Muḥammad al-`Āḍid `Abd-allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Fāṭimī, Fourteenth Fatimid Caliph. In