Cairo Administrative Reforms

Timeline

1. 1158Cairo · CairoTalai dispatched the hadib Mahmud al-Muwallad to Damascus proposing to Nur al-Din of the Zengid Sultanate a joint Egyptian-Syrian war against the crusaders; although the envoy received no substantive response, it marked the revival of Fatimid independent diplomacy.
2. 1158Gaza · GazaDirgam led troops to raid the crusaders in Gaza and east of the Jordan, while the Fatimid fleet attacked Beirut; Talai simultaneously purged the bureaucracy and confiscated political enemies' property to make up for treasury losses carried off by the Abbasids, and fortified Bilbeis against invasion from the north.