Q. & A. 711 to 1707 with solved Papers css 1971 to date

Scientific Progress
Politically the Fatimid period marks a new epoch in the history of the land, which for the first time since Pharaonic days had a completely sovereign powerful of vitality and founded on a
to the condit
- began time < Persia in 10
us bausis. The two preceding dynasties had neither national nor us footing in the country. Their rise and existence they owed mi litary ability of their soldier founders and to the dilapidated iorm o~f the Abbasid state.
TThcDUgh the golden age in the history of Fatimid of Egypt with al-Mu’izz and culminated with al-Aziz, yet Egypt in the )f .,al- Mustansir was still the leading country of Islam. The I smnaili missionary Nasir-i-Khusro, who visited the country

6-<49-«, A.D., shortly before the economic and political crash, has let.1 I uus m. description in glowing colours.

FaHmids were the great patrons of science and art. The court of al- JMHaLka’^m inspite of his mental aberrations was destined to beconmunie famous through the discoveries and researches. Ibn-Kills
was tl le fir st outstanding patron of learning in Fatimid Egypt. He
establii sh*ed an academy and spent oThrxmgh some of early Fatimid Caliphs were men of
learnii ig and culture, their period was one of unproductive of
scientSiuuistss a»d writers of special merit like other Caliphs in Baghdad and SB;; vii n, al-Aziz was himself a poet and lover of learning. It was he wU o BTia-de the Azhar Mosque an academy. His reign saw many archit^^sctnural and engineering triumph at Cairo, such as the Golden Palace-=, the pear Pavilion, his mother’s mosque in the Kerafa
The Fatimid period is one of the best documented period in Islami c iiisi.tory and is represented the ’golden age’ of Isma’ilism, during” -, vwhi«ch the Fatimids achieved a prosperous state of their own and Isi. ma’il i thought and literature reached their summit, as attested by nu TEflimesroTus treatises produced by the Fatimids Dais and authors
and « -,hnla»-s of the period, notably, Numan bin Muhammad better
knowi 1 at-s al-Qazi ai-Numan, Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani Hamid al-Din
al-Kar. mani , al-Muayyad Din al-Shirazi and Nasir Khusro. At the
same THHtirne, the Fatimids, after consolidating their position, began to

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