The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fatimite \Fat"i*mite\, Fatimide \Fat"i*mide\, a. (Hist.) Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n. A descendant of Fatima.
Usage examples of "fatimite".
But the name of Cairo, the town of victory, more strictly belongs to the modern capital, which was founded in the tenth century by the Fatimite caliphs.
When the Fatimite caliph departed for the conquest of Egypt, he rewarded the real merit and apparent fidelity of his servant Joseph with a gift of his royal mantle, and forty Arabian horses, his palace with its sumptuous furniture, and the government of the kingdoms of Tunis and Algiers.
Her vessels transported the Latin pilgrims to the coasts of Egypt and Palestine, and deserved, by their useful imports, the favor and alliance of the Fatimite caliphs: an annual fair was instituted on Mount Calvary: and the Italian merchants founded the convent and hospital of St.
Arabs: they drew their swords with scrupulous reluctance, and sustained siege in the village of Capernaum, till they were rescued by the venal protection of the Fatimite emir.
After the defeat of the Romans, the tranquillity of the Fatimite caliphs was invaded by the Turks.
Al-Moizz, or Abu Tamim, a great-grandson of Obaid Allah, the founder of the Fatimite dynasty at Tunis, sent his general Jawhar with an army to invade Egypt.
The Fatimite dynasty, of rather doubtful descent, which ruled a part of Northern Africa and Egypt in the tenth century A.
Or el-Hakim, the crudest and most fanatical ruler of the Fatimite Dynasty?
The principal bazaar, the Khan-el-Khalil, marks the site of the tombs of the Fatimite caliphs.
The example of the Ommiades was imitated by the real or fictitious progeny of Ali, the Edrissites of Mauritania, and the more powerful Fatimites of Africa and Egypt.
The royal library of the Fatimites consisted of one hundred thousand manuscripts, elegantly transcribed and splendidly bound, which were lent, without jealousy or avarice, to the students of Cairo.
But their misfortunes had been imbittered by the triumph of the Fatimites, the real or spurious progeny of Ali.
The revolution which transferred the sceptre from the Abbassides to the Fatimites was a benefit, rather than an injury, to the Holy Land.
By the arms of the Turks and Franks, the Fatimites had been deprived of Syria.
Their colour was white, as opposed to the black of the Abbasides, and the green of the Fatimites, as descendants of Muhammad.