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Fatimids

Ismaili caliphal dynasty

  • Also called Fatimides
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A family
on the record,
reign by reign.

Documented kin

Overview

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Members · 15

The house, member by member

One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.

What this means

People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.

Al-Mustansir 1029 CE – 1094 CE

2 children in the house

  1. Nizar 1045 CE – 1097 CE
  2. Al-Musta'li 1076 CE – 1101 CE 1 child in the house
One family in Fatimids: members whose records name this parent, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

Every member

People whose own records place them in this house.

Succession

Offices held in the house

The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.

Fatimid Caliph

  • 11 holders
  • 1 overlap
  • 1 gap
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1st 8 December 909 CE – 3 April 934 CE Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah Isma'ili Imam and Fatimid Caliph from 909 to 934
  2. 2nd 4 March 934 CE – 17 May 946 CE Al-Qa'im Bi-Amrillah second Fatimid caliph from 934 to 946
  3. 3rd 946 CE – 953 CE Al-Mansur Billah Fatimid ruler from 946 to 953 and 13th Ismaili Imam
  4. 4th 19 March 953 CE – 21 December 975 CE Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah 4th Caliph of the Fatimid dynasty (r. 953–975) Has references
  5. 5th 18 December 975 CE – 13 October 996 CE Al-Aziz Billah Fatimid dynasty caliph from 975 to 996
  6. 6th 19 October 996 CE – 19 February 1021 CE Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah 6th Fatimid caliph (r. 996–1021) and 16th Ismaili Imam
  7. 7th 1021 CE – 13 June 1036 CE Ali az-Zahir Fatimid dynasty caliph from 1021 to 1036
  8. 8th 13 June 1036 CE – 6 January 1095 CE Al-Mustansir Egyptian caliph from 1036 to 1094/95

  9. Overlap held at the same time as Al-Mustansir

    9th 1094 CE – 1101 CE Al-Musta'li Fatimid caliph and imam (1074–1101)
  10. 10th 1101 CE – 1130 CE Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah Fatimid caliph and imam (1096–1130)

  11. Gap about 2 years before the next in this house

    11th 23 January 1132 CE – 10 October 1149 CE Al-Hafiz Fatimid Dynasty caliph from 1132 to 1149

Ismaili imam

  • 10 holders
  • 1 overlap
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 11th 881 CE – 934 CE Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah Isma'ili Imam and Fatimid Caliph from 909 to 934
  2. 12th 4 March 934 CE – 17 May 946 CE Al-Qa'im Bi-Amrillah second Fatimid caliph from 934 to 946
  3. 13th 17 March 946 CE – 18 March 953 CE Al-Mansur Billah Fatimid ruler from 946 to 953 and 13th Ismaili Imam
  4. 14th 19 March 953 CE – 21 December 975 CE Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah 4th Caliph of the Fatimid dynasty (r. 953–975)
  5. 15th 18 December 975 CE – 13 October 996 CE Al-Aziz Billah Fatimid dynasty caliph from 975 to 996
  6. 16th 19 October 996 CE – 19 February 1021 CE Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah 6th Fatimid caliph (r. 996–1021) and 16th Ismaili Imam
  7. 17th 1021 CE – 13 June 1036 CE Ali az-Zahir Fatimid dynasty caliph from 1021 to 1036
  8. 18th 13 June 1036 CE – 6 January 1095 CE Al-Mustansir Egyptian caliph from 1036 to 1094/95

  9. Overlap held at the same time as Al-Mustansir

    19th 1094 CE – 1101 CE Al-Musta'li Fatimid caliph and imam (1074–1101)
  10. 20th 1101 CE – 1130 CE Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah Fatimid caliph and imam (1096–1130)

الإمام الإسماعيلي النزاري

  • 4 holders
  • 3 gaps
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 19th 10 January 1094 CE – December 1095 CE Nizar Fatimid prince and Nizari imam (1045–1095)

  2. Gap about 67 years before the next in this house

    23rd 20 February 1162 CE – 10 January 1166 CE Hassan II Nizari imam

  3. Gap about 44 years before the next in this house

    25th 1210 CE – 1221 CE Jalal al-Din Hassan III Nizari Imam of Alamut

  4. Gap about 34 years before the next in this house

    27th 1 December 1255 CE – 19 November 1256 CE Rukn al-Din Khurshah Nizari Ismaili Imam

Lord of Alamut

  • 3 holders
  • 2 gaps
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 4th 20 February 1162 CE – 10 January 1166 CE Hassan II Nizari imam

  2. Gap about 44 years before the next in this house

    6th 1210 CE – 1221 CE Jalal al-Din Hassan III Nizari Imam of Alamut

  3. Gap about 34 years before the next in this house

    8th 1 December 1255 CE – 19 November 1256 CE Rukn al-Din Khurshah Nizari Ismaili Imam

Chronology is not a full explanation

Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.

Religious context · a separate claim

Affiliation

Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.

What this means

Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.

Affiliations recorded on members

An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.

Connections

How Fatimids connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 1

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Transmission 1

What this means

Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

2 statements on this record

  • 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

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