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‘The first four Fatamid Caliphs remained in Africa but [sic] in 973[ce]** al-Mu’izz moved to Egypt in the hope of deposing the Abbasids in Baghdad. Thus Shii rule was brought to Egypt and even to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina; but Syria was only temporarily in their power and their emissaries were present in Iran, where the extreme Ismaili established themselves in castle strongholds in the mountain valleys of Dailam. From Africa they had conquered Sicily between 916 and 965.*** Subsequently the island became virtually independent; while soon after, before 1051[ce],**** Africa also fell from their grasp. It is therefore as rulers of Egypt that the Fatamids made their major impact on the Islamic world and by their contacts with Europe through the Normans in Sicily.’

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**{2048A~1024[ce]}

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#– ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Arts 3]: 433

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