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Consolidation of Personal Rule by Fatimid al-Hakim

Type Event Region Africa Time 1000–1005

Around 1001 CE, Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, sixth caliph and sixteenth Ismaili imam, assumed full personal rule after eliminating the regen…

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  1. 1000Cairo court · CairoUpon reaching adulthood, al-Hakim ordered the execution of the eunuch Barjawan, who had served as regent for years, ending the regency era and taking administrative and military power into his own hands; he then purged the Mashriqi and Kutama factions at court.
  2. 1001–1003Fatimid Syrian frontier · Syriaal-Hakim concluded a ten-year truce with Byzantine Emperor Basil II, stabilizing the Syrian frontier; at the same time he limited officials' terms in office, reformed the currency, and expanded patronage of scholarly institutions, marking the formation of his personal style of rule.

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