al-ʿAzīz Billāh

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al-ʿAzīz Billāh was a 10th-century Fatimid caliph who consolidated Fatimid rule in Egypt and expanded their influence across the eastern Mediterranean.

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al-Aziz Billah 6
al-ʿAzīz Billāh canonical 2
al-ʿAzīz bi-llāh 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 10th-century monarch
Fatimid caliph
Muslim ruler
administrativeCenter Cairo
appointedOfficial Yaʿqub ibn Killis
birthDate c. 955
birthPlace North Africa
surface form: Ifriqiya

al-Mahdiyya
branchOfIslam Ismaili Shia
surface form: Ismaʿili Shiʿism
burialPlace Cairo
caliphOf Fatimid Caliphate
capitalDuringReign Cairo
child Sitt al-Mulk
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
surface form: al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh
conflictWith Abbasid Caliphate
Byzantine Empire
controlledPilgrimageRoutesTo Mecca
Medina
deathDate 14 October 996
deathPlace Bilbays
Egypt
dynasty Fatimid Caliphate
surface form: Fatimid dynasty
era Islamic Golden Age
expandedControlOver Damascus
Palestine
father al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh
fullName al-ʿAzīz Billāh self-linksurface differs
surface form: Abu Mansur Nizar al-ʿAzīz Billāh
house House of al-Mahdi
knownFor administrative and financial reforms
consolidating Fatimid rule in Egypt
expanding Fatimid influence in the eastern Mediterranean
religious tolerance toward Christians and Jews
meaningOfRegnalName The Mighty through God
mother al-Khayzuran
surface form: Durzan (Umm al-Muʿizz)
notableConstruction mosques in Cairo
patronOf architecture
scholarship
positionHeld Caliph
Imam of the Fatimid Ismaʿili community
predecessor al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh
regnalName al-ʿAzīz Billāh self-link
reignedOver Egypt
Syria
parts of North Africa
Hejaz
surface form: the Hejaz
reignEnd 996
reignStart 975
religion Islam
spouse Christian wife from the Melkite community
successor al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
surface form: al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh
territorialPolicy expansion into Syria

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Fatimid Caliphate notableCaliph al-ʿAzīz Billāh
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah predecessor al-ʿAzīz Billāh
this entity surface form: al-Aziz Billah
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah father al-ʿAzīz Billāh
this entity surface form: al-Aziz Billah
al-ʿAzīz Billāh fullName al-ʿAzīz Billāh self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Abu Mansur Nizar al-ʿAzīz Billāh
al-ʿAzīz Billāh regnalName al-ʿAzīz Billāh self-link
al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh successor al-ʿAzīz Billāh
this entity surface form: al-ʿAzīz bi-llāh
Abu Ali al-Mansur predecessor al-ʿAzīz Billāh
this entity surface form: al-Aziz Billah
Abu Ali al-Mansur father al-ʿAzīz Billāh
this entity surface form: al-Aziz Billah
al-Sayyida al-Aziziyya spouse al-ʿAzīz Billāh
this entity surface form: al-Aziz Billah
al-Sayyida al-Aziziyya consortOf al-ʿAzīz Billāh
this entity surface form: al-Aziz Billah
Fatimid Cairo associatedWithCaliph al-ʿAzīz Billāh
this entity surface form: al-ʿAzīz bi-llāh