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Also Known As Muʿizz li-Dīn Allah • Abū Tamīm Maʿad
Born c.930
Died 975
Title / Office caliph (953-975), Egypt
House / Dynasty Fatimid dynasty
al-Mustanṣir
Fāṭimid caliph
Mosque of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ
ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ
Arab general
al-ʿAzīz
Fāṭimid caliph
Amyrtaeus of Sais
king of Egypt
Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian leader
Akhenaten
Akhenaten
king of Egypt
Ramses II
Ramses II
king of Egypt
Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century bce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Herodotus
Greek historian
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
queen of Egypt
ancient Egyptian empire under Thutmose III
Thutmose III
king of Egypt
Coin depicting Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I Soter
Macedonian king of Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser
president of Egypt
Hosni Mubarak
Hosni Mubarak
president of Egypt
Arsinoe II
queen of Thrace, Macedonia and Egypt
Saad Zaghloul
Saad Zaghloul
Egyptian statesman
Darius I
Darius I
king of Persia
Mohamed Morsi
Mohamed Morsi
president of Egypt
Lord Cromer, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1902; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Evelyn Baring, 1st earl of Cromer
British diplomat
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Seleucid king
Baybars I
Mamlūk sultan of Egypt and Syria