al-Zafir bi-Llah Isma'il ibn al-Hafiz
Twelfth Ubaydid caliph, succeeding his father in 544; killed in 549, his boy al-Fa'iz raised as Egypt's power failed.
Reign · Fatimid Caliphate · no. 6 in the chain · 1149–1154 CE
Ruled the caliphate
Events of the reign
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Battle of Dalas (1150)
Draft card for Battle of Dalas (1150); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Sétif (1153)
Draft card for the Battle of Sétif in 1153, the Almohad victory over Norman Sicily's forces; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Alfonso's Siege of Cordoba and Its Submission to the Almohads
Alfonso VII's siege of Cordoba (545) with forty thousand horse while the city starved; Abd al-Mu'min sent twelve thousand under whom the Frank withdrew, and the commander Abu al-Ghamr al-Sa'ib surrendered it to Yahya ibn Maymun — then the Almohad army entered al-Andalus twenty thousand strong under al-Muntati, and Granada's Maymun and Ibn Hamushk submitted.
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Nuzhat al-Mushtaq completed, 549 AH
Al-Idrisi completed for Roger II the Nuzhat al-Mushtaq geography in 549/1154 with the celebrated planisphere known as the Tabula Rogeriana.
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The Tripoli Uprising against the Christians and Their Burning
When Roger of Sicily took Tripoli of Ifriqiya and kept its Muslims under his rule, Abu Yahya ibn Matruh, one of the town's notables, went among its leading men and drew them into striking the Normans — they rose, killed them and burned them, and Ibn Matruh governed Tripoli until Abd al-Mu'min's coming in 555 restored it.