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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;7Calbrey, post: 2346459, member: 38412&quot;]The Abbasid Caliphate was based in Baghdad. The Fatimid Caliphate,for its part, was based in Egypt. I mean that there were two Caliphs who were opposed and went on a long war.The Fatimids were Shiites, whereas the Abbasids were Sunni. The name of the Fatimids comes from Fatima who was the wife of Imam Ali Ben Abi Taleb. By that time, the Ayyubids of Saladin existed there and so did the Crusaders. There was war on all fronts for religious ,sectarian and hegemony purposes. Saladin ended the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt and became the ruler of Damascus and Egypt. After his death, he was buried in Damascus. His brother, and later his nephews succeeded him in power in Egypt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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