Al Hakim Bi Amr Allah
(Cairo)
Al-Hakim History Al-Hakim is the younger son of Al-Muizz li-Din Allah. Son of a Christian mother, two uncles, Arsenius and Orestes, respectively patriarchs Melkite of Alexandria and Jerusalem. His father died when he was only eleven. For four years, from 996 in 1000 , the eunuch Bardjawn as regent of the Fatimid house before being executed by Al-Hakim . At his accession to supreme command, he was not challenged. This tends to demonstrate the stability of the Fatimid dynasty at that time. His first important decisions relating to the moral and propaganda - da `wa - Ismaili. It proclaims the anathema against khoulafh ridn and sahaba. In 1005 , Al-Hakim founded the "House of Knowledge" equipped with a large public library where astronomy, philosophy were taught in addition to the purely religious disciplines such as knowledge of Hadith and Quran. This is where the future missionaries ( da `i ) receiving instruction Ismaili doctrines they were then loaded to spread throughout the Muslim world. Meanwhile he ordered strict enforcement of the Pact of Umar against dhimmis including confiscation of property of churches , destruction of new religious buildings, and the imposition of obligations clothing. However, if this policy was neither consistent nor continuous, its climax was reached in 1009 , when Al-Hakim did destroy the Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. He persecuted Christians and other dhimmis of Palestine and Egypt, making them cut the tongue if they were caught speaking their language forbidden, Coptic. Although the situation of Christians in Palestine was much improved under his successors, and the Emperor Byzantium Constantine IX would have rebuilt in 1048 , more than a generation later, the destruction of the Holy Sepulcher was the main reason invoked by all the preachers before the First Crusade in 1096 , with the same date conquering Seljuk of Jerusalem , his sacking and the prohibition of Christian pilgrims to enter the holy city. In 1013 , Al-Hakim Mosque completed begun by his father in Cairo , which became the "mosque of Hakim" or "Friday mosque". It must be said that the study of his reign is made difficult because Al-Hakim is poorly portrayed in Sunni sources, too negative to be entirely true according to historian PK Hitti. After his death, some of his relatives, gathered around one of his viziers Muhammad al-Darazi , made him an incarnation of God, proclaiming obscured, thus founding the sect of the Druzes (1021). This tendency to deify Imam existed since the first Shiite imams. Imam Shiite Ja'far as-Sadiq had burned the Shiites who had wanted to deify (c. 750 ). He expanded the empire by conquering Fatimid Syria to Aleppo. Al-Hakim disappeared in 1021. He did not return a night walk around Cairo in the hills of al-Muqattam. His body was not recovered. His murder was probably ordered by his sister, Sitt al-Mulk . Religious Policy
Begun during the reign of his father it was finished in 1013. Politics and military conquests
During his long reign, Al-Hakim was to oppose qarmates prevailing in Bahrain. His fiercest opponent was the Caliph Abbasid Baghdad's al-Qadir bi-Amr Allah, who wanted to stop the spread of the Ismailis. He summoned the Shia Twelver , requiring them to write a paper declaring that al-Hakim is not a descendant of 'Ali : the "Manifesto of Baghdad" ( 1013 ).
Besides the threat Abbasid Fatimid empire was threatened by the Berbers to the west and the Turks in the north, and by his own viziers inside (over the last twenty years of the reign of al-Hakim, fifteen viziers have succeeded). End of reign
Preceded by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Followed by Nizar al-Aziz bi-llah 
Fatimids 
( nine hundred and ninety-six - in 1021 ) `Ali az-Zahir Notes
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