Al-Hafiz

Type Figure Region Egypt Time c. 1102–1149 Also known as Fatimid caliph al-Hafiz

Fatimid caliph (r. 1132–1149) whose late reign saw viziers and court factions dominate while Fatimid central authority steadily declined.

Timeline

1141–1145Cairo · EgyptIn the early 1140s al-Hafiz presided over government in the Cairo palace, but real power increasingly slipped from his hands. Armenian- and Turkic-origin officials rose in the court, viziers changed frequently, and the caliph assumed more the role of religious symbol and guarantor of the succession order.
1146–1149Cairo · EgyptAl-Hafiz grew weak in his later years and, before his death in 1149, designated his son al-Zafir as successor. In the last period of his rule factional strife at the Fatimid court intensified, creating the conditions for the subsequent vizieral autocracy and the dynasty's rapid collapse.

Al-Hafiz — M. Canard https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/al-hafiz-SIM_0393
The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume 1: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517 — Carl F. Petry (1998)