Al-Mustansir Billah, Caliph · Longest-reigning Fatimid

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Al-Mustansir Billahالمستنصر بالله

Cairo

His near sixty-year reign saw great famine in Egypt and a split that divided the Isma'ilis.

In 1059 his name was briefly read in the Friday sermon in Baghdad. A terrible famine struck Egypt in the 1060s. After his death a succession quarrel split the Isma'ilis, giving rise to the Nizari 'Assassins'.

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Al-Hakim bi-Amr AllahAl-Adid

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