12th-century people from the Fatimid Caliphate

Arabic poet

vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate from 1094 to 1121

thumb|Shawar receives messengers from King Amalric '''Shawar ibn Mujir al-Sa'di' (; died 18 January 1169) was the de facto'' ruler of Fatimid Egypt, as its vizier, from December 1162 until his assassination in 1169 by the general Shirkuh, the uncle of the future Ayyubid leader Saladin, with whom he was engaged in a three-way power struggle against the Crusader Amalric I of Jerusalem. Shawar was notorious for continually switching alliances, allying first with one side, and then the other, and even ordering the burning of his own capital city, Fustat, just so that the enemy could not have it.

11th c. Fatimid governor of Jerusalem

12th-century Islamic scholar

secretary and chief counsellor to Saladin (1135–1200)

Vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate

Egyptian Arab poet and author

writer

military commander of Fatimid Caliphate

'''Abu'l-Ashbāl al-Ḍirghām ibn ʿĀmir ibn Sawwār al-Lukhamī''' () () was an Arab military commander in the service of the Fatimid Caliphate. An excellent warrior and model cavalier, he rose to higher command and scored some successes against the Kingdom of Jerusalem as well as against internal rebellions. Despite his close personal ties to the viziers Tala'i ibn Ruzzik and his son Ruzzik ibn Tala'i, he joined Shawar when the latter rebelled against Ruzzik and seized the vizierate. Nine months later, Dirgham betrayed Shawar as well and expelled him from the capital, becoming vizier himself on 31

Vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate in 1153–54

12th-century Fatimid vizier

25th imam of Hafizi Isma'ilism

Fatimid vizier

12th-century Fatimid military commander

Egyptian court physician

12th-century Fatimid princess

Kutayfāt, also known as Abu Ali Ahmad ibn al-Afdal or al-Afdal Kutayfāt, (d. 1131) was vizier and amīr al-juyūsh (commander of the armies) to al-Hafiz, Caliph of Egypt, from 1130 to 1131. He seized power by imprisoning al-Hafiz, proclaimed the dynasty deposed and abandoned Isma'ilism as the state religion in favour of a vaguely Twelver form of Shi'ism with himself as vicegerent of a hidden imam. but was murdered by Fatimid forces loyal to the caliph. Kutayfāt was the son of al-Afdal Shahanshah and grandson of Badr al-Jamali, and so the third generation of Armenians serving as Fatimid vizier.

Fatimid vizier from 1161 to 1163

vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate (1134)

'''Sharīf al-Dīn Abu Ali Muḥammad ibn Sana' al-Mulk As'ad ibn Ali al-Jawwani (, 1131–1192) better known as Al-Jawwani''', was a 12th-century Arab Egyptian historian and genealogist in Fatimid Egypt.

Jewish-Egyptian businesswoman

younger son of Fatimid caliph al-Hafiz