The Fatimid state
The Fatimids and the Church 843-1025 The Shiites: The Shiites of Ali still demanded the caliphate for him and his descendants and believed that they were more deserving of it. The Abbasid caliphs were warning them [...]
Fatimid religious policy
The Fatimids and the Church 843-1025 The Fatimid state was established on the Shiite mission, and its successors were imams, descendants of Ali and Fatima. Their imamate descended from the imamate of Ismail ibn
The Church in the Fatimid period
The Fatimids and the Church 843-1025 The name and title of the Church: The Egyptian Jacobites criticized Timothy, the Patriarch of Alexandria (460-482), for saying the king’s words at the Council of Chalcedon (451), so they called
Patriarchs from John V to Peter III
The Fatimids and the Church 843-1025 John V: (993-1022) Agapius intervened in politics, as we mentioned previously, and angered the philosophers, and he was forced to abdicate the Antiochian throne.
Echo of the Great Schism
The Great Schism 1054-1098 in Antioch: After Peter III, the patriarchs John VI Familianus, Theodosius II, Phoenician, and John assumed the patriarchal throne.