The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
عصر البويهيين والفاطميين والسلاجقة
945 CE · 334 AH – 1171 CE · 567 AH
The centuries when the Abbasid caliph was a symbolic centre while Buyids, Fatimids, Seljuks and others held power, and when Ibn Sina, al-Biruni and al-Ghazali worked.
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- Levant & Iraq
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Sources
- Hodgson, The Venture of Islam (1974)
- Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (1991)
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islam.museum contributors. “The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/period/buyid-seljuk-fatimid-era/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.