Al-Afdal, 216-220 Al-Amir, Khalif, 218 —assassinated, 220-221 Al-ʿAziz, Khalif, 115 sqq. —death, 121-122 Aleppo, 175, 176, 195 Al-Faʿiz, Khalif, 233 Al-Hafiz, Khalif, 222 Al-Hakim, Khalif, 121, 123 sqq. —peculiarities, 133 —mosques, 137-8 —disappears, 185 sqq. —reports that he is still alive, 188 ʿAli, 4, 5 ʿAli Allahi, 16 ʿAlid lines of descent, 5, 11 Al-Jarjarai, 193, 196 Al-Mahadiya founded, 77 Al-Mansur, Khalif, 90, 91 Al-Moʿizz, Khalif, 93 sqq. —goes to Egypt, 109 —his rule in Egypt, 113 Al-Mustali, Khalif, 210 sqq. Al-Mustansir, Khalif, 88 Al-Qaʾim, Khalif, 88 Al-Yazuri, 196, 197, 198, 200, 203 Amalric, 239-242 Anushtegin, 191-196 Arab race, 1 Armenians in Egypt, 206, 223-224 As-Salih, 233, 235-236 Assassins, sect of, 209, 210 sqq., 244-245 Az-Zafir, Khalif, 227 Az-Zahir, Khalif, 189 B Babists, 15 Badr the Armenian, 206, 208 Bahrayn taken by the Qarmatians, 49-50 Baldwin, 218-219 Barjawan, 124, 126, 130 —assassinated, 131 Barqa taken by Abu Raqwa, 148-149 Batinite doctrines, 7, 12, 176 Berbers, 55-56, 74 sqq. B. Qorra, 147-148 Buraniyya sect, 48 Byzantium, treaty with, 191 C Cairo founded, 102 sqq., 114 Christians, 2, 116, 141, 143-145, 155-158, 170, 179-180, 197-198, 226 —allowed to emigrate, 171 Cluniac movement, 252-254 “Companions” cursed, 142 —cursing stopped, 154, 169 Crusades, 216-218, 224, 236, 238-239, 241, 255 D Daʿi or missionary of Shiʿite sect, 6, 7 —arguments used by Ismaʿilian daʿi, 21 sqq. —Chief Daʿi, 135 Darazi, Persian teacher who visited Egypt, 176 Daylamites, 83 Daysan, 18 Dirgham, 236, 238 Druses, 43, 178-179, 187, 244 E Egypt attacked, 78, 94 —Shiʿites in, 79 —disorder in Egypt, 97-98 —invaded by the Fatimids, 99 sqq. F Fadl, general under al-Hakim, 149, 152-153 Famine in Egypt, 190, 204-205 Fatimid claims, 34 sqq.; cf. ʿAlid lines of descent —claims ridiculed, 116 —manifesto against, 166 Fatimid architecture, 106 —decline of Fatimids, 254 —end of Fatimid rule, 243-245 Forbidden vegetables, 141-142, 164 Fustat, 102 —fired by al-Hakim, 183 H Haftakin, 111 sqq. —prisoner, 119 Hamdan, 39, 40, 43 Hamza, 178, 179, 181 Hasan al Akhram, 178 Hasan b. Mufarraj revolts, 163 Hasan-i-Sabbah visits Egypt, 208 sqq., 212 Hasan Qarmatian leader, 47 Hashimites, 5 Hijaz, recognition of Fatimids in, 202-203 “House of Wisdom,” 139-140 Husayn Ahwazi, 39 Husayn b. Jawhar, 131, 132, 153-160 I Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, 18 Ibn ʿAmmar, 124 —downfall, 126-127 Ibn Hawshab, 51 sqq. Ibn Killis the Jew, 99, 114, 120 Ibn Nestorius, 120