High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fatimid art refers to Islamic artifacts and architecture from the Fatimid Caliphate (909-1171), principally in Egypt and North Africa. to summarise The Fatimids were a huge dynasty who belived that they decnded from the last islamic phrophet(muhammed) daughter fatima hence they called themselves the fatimids.the fatimid Caliphate was initially established in the Mahgreb, with its roots in a ninth century Shi'ite Ismailist religious movement originating in Iraq and Iran. Many monuments survive in the Fatimid cities founded in North Africa, starting with Mahdia, on the Tunisian coast, the principal city prior to the conquest of Egypt in 969 and the building of al-Qahira, the "City Victorious", now part of modern day Cairo. The period was marked by a prosperity amongst the upper echelons, manifested in the creation of opulent and finely wrought objects in the decorative arts, including carved rock crystal, lustreware and other ceramics, wood...

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