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Fatimid
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Fat·i·mid  (ft-md) also Fat·i·mite (-mt)
A Muslim dynasty that ruled North Africa and parts of Egypt (909-1171).


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As Greif tells it, the Fatimids had a weak bureaucracy that saved itself administrative trouble by relying on community associations.
By 974, a new princely city named al-Qahira was built by the conquering Fatimids, this time with walls and several gates to keep the rulers apart from the inhabitants of al-Fustat.
Professor Gil himself writes about the "special links that existed between the Fatimids and the Jews" and in spite of occasional problems common to all subdued religions and social communities, their situation throughout the period was more that of a well established and well protected middle class than persecuted outcasts.
 
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