Fatimite
- a variation of Fatimid.
Example Sentences
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Later on another caliphate was set up in Egypt—the Fatimite caliphate, resting its title on descent from Mohammed's daughter Fatima.
From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop
The nominal ruler of Egypt at that time was El-Adid, the Fatimite Caliph, and he made Saladin his Vizier, little thinking that that modest officer would soon supplant him.
From The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela by Benjamin of Tudela
Under the fourth Fatimite Khalifa Egypt fell into the power of the dynasty, and, before long, bi-weekly assemblages of both men and women known as "societies of wisdom" were instituted in Cairo.
From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Webster, Nesta H.
Both perceived that the Fatimite power was gone.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
He has made himself known to men by successive incarnations, of which the last was Hakim, the sixth Fatimite caliph.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
