Al-Adid, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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caliph
Date of Birth: 16-May-1151
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Date of Death: 13-Sep-1171
Profession: ruler
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Al-Adid
- Abu Mu?ammad ?Abd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn al-?afi? (1151–1171), better known by his regnal name al-?A?id li-Din Allah (Arabic: ?????? ???? ?????, "Support of God's Faith"), also known as al-Azid and al-Athid, was the fourteenth and last caliph of the Fatimid dynasty, reigning from 1160 to 1171.
- Al-?A?id became a minority caliph on the death of his cousin Al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah (r.
- 1154–60), who also had been a minority caliph.
- The de facto ruler of the time was the vizier, Tala'i ibn Ruzzik, who had taken to himself the honorific title al-Malik, or "King".
- Ibn Ruzzik, a Twelver Shi'a, had further consolidated his position by forcing the young Al-?A?id to marry his daughter.
- Fatimid rule was so weak and divided by this time that the Crusaders were able to begin their invasions of Egypt.
- Al-Adid was the last Arab ruler in Egypt and Syria, and according to Michael Haag, "the once imperial Arabs were now governed by Turks and Kurds".Shawar, a former Fatimid governor of Upper Egypt, who, amid the empire's power struggle turned to Nur ad-Din Zangi, ruler of the Zengids in Syria, and was able to establish himself as vizier in Egypt (1163–1169), and he was the effective ruler of the land.
- Through careful seesaw diplomacy between Crusaders and Zengids, Shawar maintained a fragile grip on power.
- First, with the help of Syrian troops under Shirkuh and Saladin, Shawar's forces were able to fight off the Crusader incursions. A remarkable alliance was struck in 1167 between his caliphate and the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, against the Zengids.
- The crusader Arabic-speaking envoys, Hugh Grenier, a Knight Hospitaller, and Geoffrey Fulcher, a Knight Templar, arrived at his palace in Cairo, which was lavishly described by William of Tyre based on their impressions. Eventually, however, Shirkuh killed Shawar and took his place in 1169.
- After Shirkuh's death two months later, Shirkuh's nephew Saladin became vizier of Egypt.
- When al-Adid died of natural causes in 1171, the Fatimid dynasty ended to make way for the Ayyubids (1171–1260), a dynasty named for Saladin's father Ayyub. Al-Adid was believed by the Hafizi Ismailis to be the 25th Imam and was succeeded by his son Daud surnamed Al-Hamid-lil-lah as Imam.
- The Hafizi sect continued with Daud Al-Hamid-lil-lah as 26th Imam who died in 1207/1208, in prison under the Ayyubids appointing his son Sulayman Badruddin as the 27th Imam, who died in 1248 also in prison under the Ayyubids.
- Sulayman Badrudddin died without issue in prison under the Ayyubids and the Hafizi Ismaili Imamah bloodline died out. The Hafizi sect survived into the 13th and 14th centuries with adherents in Northern Egypt and Syria but had died out by the 15th century.
- There were attempts to restore Fatimid rule in 1174/1175 with the help of Kanz ad-Dawla and a pretender who claimed descent as Da'ud bin Sulayman bin Da'ud bin al-?A?id who attempted to restore Fatimid rule with both attempts being defeated by the Ayyubids.
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