Abu Mansur Nizar Al Aziz Billah

Abu Mansur Nizar al-Aziz Billah ^Biography

In 988 he founded in Cairo one of the first universities in the world of al-Azhar mosque. Thirty-five teachers of the law resident, pointed by the Caliph, and give lessons every Friday after prayers. A library of eighteen thousand volumes is formed. He died 13 October 996.

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Do not confuse Abu Mansur Nizar al-Aziz Billah with Nizar Abu Mansur bin al-Mustansir which gives its name to Nizari ( 1045 - 1097 ).

Preceded by	Abu Mansur Nizar al-Aziz Billah	Followed by
Al-Muizz li-Din Allah	Fatimids ( 975 - 996 )	Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah

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• Fatimids

Links and external documents

• Charles-Andre Julien , History of North Africa from its origins to 1830, original edition 1931, reprint Payot, Paris, 1994 ( ISBN 978-2-228-88789-2 )
• (Ar) The Fatmides

• Islam Portal