Al-Zafir

al-Zafir
ImamCaliph of the Fatimid Caliphate
Reign1149 – 1154
Predecessoral-Hafiz li-Din Allah
Successoral-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah
Born23 February 1133
Died1 or 15 April 1154(1154-04-15) (aged 21)
Cairo
DynastyFatimid
Fatheral-Hafiz
ReligionHafizi Isma'ilism

Abū Manṣūr Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ (Arabic: أبو منصور إسماعيل بن الحافظ, February 1133 – April 1154), better known by his regnal name al-Ẓāfir bi-Aʿdāʾ Allāh (الظافر بأعداء الله, lit.'Victor over God's Enemies')[1] or al-Ẓāfir bi-Amr Allāh (الظافر بأمر الله, lit.'Victorious by the Command of God'),[2] was the twelfth Fatimid caliph, reigning in Egypt from 1149 to 1154, and the 22nd imam of the Hafizi Ismaili sect.

  1. ^ Bianquis 2002, p. 382.
  2. ^ Halm 2014, p. 223.

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