al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah

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al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah
الفائز بنصر الله
Ismaili Shia Islam

Abūʾl-Qāsim ʿĪsā ibn al-Ẓāfir (

epileptic seizures, al-Fa'iz died from an episode at the age of eleven, and his nephew, al-Adid
, the final Fatimid caliph, succeeded him.

Life

The future al-Fa'iz was born as Abu'l-Qasim Isa, the son of the twelfth

epileptic seizures and tremors were a result of these traumatic experiences.[1] For the same reason, his role in public ceremonies was limited; the annual ceremony celebrating the flooding of the Nile was even held at night during his reign.[4]

The bloody events soon resulted in Abbas' own downfall. Terrified women in the Fatimid family called upon the Armenian-born governor of Asyut, Tala'i ibn Ruzzik, for assistance, reportedly sending their own cut hair in supplication.[3][5] Ibn Ruzzik readily agreed and marched on Cairo. Abbas tried to resist, but faced general opposition: most of the troops were reluctant to support him or defected outright, and the remainder found themselves under attack by the populace with stones. In the end, on 29 May Abbas had to force his way out of the capital with his son and a handful of followers. The party made for Syria but was intercepted on 6 June by the Crusaders near the Dead Sea. Abbas was killed, and Nasr was sold to the Fatimids; he was mutilated and beaten to death by the palace women.[3][6]

Ibn Ruzzik was named vizier with plenipotentiary powers on 17 June,

Iraq, but he made no attempt to depose the Fatimid dynasty, instead ruling on its behalf as a de facto king in the style of the all-powerful and illustrious Armenian viziers Badr al-Jamali and al-Afdal Shahanshah, whom he attempted to emulate.[9]

Ibn Ruzzik's position was not without its challenges: in 1155, and again in 1157, he faced uprisings against him by provincial governors.

Nur al-Din Zangi failed.[2][11][12] When Baldwin III of Jerusalem prepared an invasion of Egypt in 1160, he had to be bought off.[11] Ibn Ruzzik's reputation as a holy warrior, a poet, and a patron of culture was counterbalanced by his despotic rule, resorting to confiscations to address the by now chronic shortfalls of revenue, exacerbated by the active pursuit of the war against the Crusaders.[13]

Al-Fa'iz died during an epileptic seizure on 22 July 1160.[2][4] Ibn Ruzzik chose another underage child to succeed him: al-Fa'iz's nine-year-old cousin al-Adid, who was wed to one of the vizier's daughters for good measure.[4][14] He was to be the last Fatimid caliph.[15]

See also

  • List of rulers of Egypt

References

  1. ^ a b c Halm 2014, p. 237.
  2. ^ a b c d Daftary 2007, p. 250.
  3. ^ a b c d Brett 2017, p. 283.
  4. ^ a b c Halm 2014, p. 247.
  5. ^ Halm 2014, p. 238.
  6. ^ Halm 2014, pp. 238–240.
  7. ^ Halm 2014, pp. 241–242.
  8. ^ Cortese & Calderini 2006, p. 114.
  9. ^ Brett 2017, pp. 283–285.
  10. ^ Halm 2014, p. 242.
  11. ^ a b Brett 2017, p. 285.
  12. ^ Halm 2014, pp. 242–243.
  13. ^ Brett 2017, pp. 284–285.
  14. ^ Daftary 2007, pp. 250–251.
  15. ^ Daftary 2007, pp. 251–252.

Sources

  • Brett, Michael (2017). The Fatimid Empire. The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. .
  • Cortese, Delia; Calderini, Simonetta (2006). Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. .
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Preceded by
al-Zafir bi-Amr Allah
Fatimid Caliph

16 April 1154 – 22 July 1160
Succeeded by
al-Adid li-Din Allah
Imam of Hafizi Isma'ilism
16 April 1154 – 22 July 1160