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Al-Muizz li-Din Allah was a fourth Fatimid Caliph and fourteenth Ismaili Imam, reigning from 953 to 975. It was during his reign that the centre of power of the Arab Fatimid dynasty was moved from Ifriqiya to Egypt. He was regarded as the most powerful of the Fatimid caliphs, whose armies conquered Egypt and who made the newly founded Al-Qahirah, or Cairo, his capital.

Fatimid Literature rose to a certain height of prominence in the period of Al Muizz with. He is also credited for having commissioned the invention of the first fountain pen. His authority was acknowledged over the greater part of the region now comprising Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and he soon took the island of Sicily.

Al-Mu'izz issued dinars with a clear Shi'i message and a new design: a short, one-line legend was ringed by three concentric circular legends reading from the inner to the outer bands. The wording, which read "And Ali ibn Abi Talib is the Nominee of the Prophet and the Most Excellent Representative and the Husband of the Radiant Chaste One [i.e., Fatima, daughter of the Prophet]," expressed the essence of the Isma'ili doctrines.

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