Reign of El Muiz Le Din Allah El Fatemy

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The fourth Caliph , Al-Muizz Lideenillah Al-Fatimy was a generous , brave and strict Muslim . Besides being well-educated , he knew many languages and was a poet .
He sent his vizier , Gawhar El-Siqilli (The Sicilian) to Morocco to put down the revolts against him and he succeeded in controlling the African Coast .
At this time , Egypt was in a very bad condition , because , during the last years of Ikhshid Dynasty , a weak child ruler , called Ibn Furai , became the governor of Egypt . People hated him and the soldiers revolted . Moreover , a famine happened because of the low level of the Nile leaving of 60 , 000 people dead .
Therefore , Gawhar El-Siqilli with 10 , 000 men went to Egypt and captured Alexandria , then El-Fustat and , finally , the Fatimid army entered the capital , AL-Askar . Gawhar immediately began to found a new fortified capital , called Al-Kahira . The New city was built around two royal palaces and a mosque called Al-Azhar .
Through sending corn and wheat by ships from Al-Maghrib to Egypt , Al-Muizz managed to end the famine . Further , he reduced taxes and established a center to exchange the wheat forcing everyone to sell it under the supervision of El-Muhtasib (The chief of the financial department) . He improved the agriculture and the irrigation system by digging new canals and repairing the old ones .
Also , Al-Muizz organized the departments and appointed an Egyptian and Maghrebi officers to each department and restored justice . He also looked after the Copts by appointing one of them to be the head of the customs in Egypt and Palestine .
Among his other achievements , Al-Muizz built a big fleet , improved the level of the army and could capture Southern Syria , Hijaz , Mecca and El Medina . The King of Nubia paid him tribute .
At the end of his reign , the Karmatis القرامطة invaded Egypt and defeated Al-Muizz's army , so he bribed the chief of Banu Tayy , who was the close friend of the Karmatis by 10 , 000 false dinars . Thus , the Karmatis' army escaped to Syria .