Al-'Āḍid

Al- Adid (Arabic أبو محمد العاضد لدين الله عبد الله بن يوسف بن الحافظ, Abū Muḥammad al - ʿ DMG Adid li - Dīn Allāh ʿ Abd Allāh b Yūsuf b al - Hafiz, .. * 1149, † 1171 ) was from 1160 to 1171 the fourteenth and last Caliph of the Fatimids.

After his minor brother al - Faiz 's death (1154-1160) was al - Adid, also a minor, the head of the Fatimids. The rule of the Fatimids was now so weak that the Crusaders from Palestine now began direct attacks on Egypt. This was also favored by infighting - as was overthrown with the vizier Ibn Tali Russik 1161, the last Regent enabled.

With the help of Zengids to Shawar came out as the new vizier ( 1163-1169 ). Only with the Syrian troops Zengids under Sirkuh Saladin and the attacks of the Crusaders could be averted in the next few years. However, Shawar ran a seesaw policy between the Crusaders and the Zengids to secure his reign in Egypt.

Ultimately, the Zengids could overthrow in 1169 Shawar and enforce Saladin as vizier in Egypt. This sparked after fierce street battles in Cairo to the Garden of the Armenians and Nubians and withdrew the Fatimids so that their last military support. When al - Adid died in 1171, Saladin overthrew the dynasty of the Fatimids and founded as Sultan of Egypt, the dynasty of the Ayyubids ( 1171-1260 ).

Abdallah al -Mahdi | al - Qa'im bi- amri ' llah | Ismail al - Mansur | Abu Tamim al - Muizz | al - Aziz | al -Hakim | az- Zahir | al - Mustansir | al - Mustali | al -Amir | al - Hafiz | az- Zafir | al - Fa'iz | al - Adid

• Caliph ( Fatimids )
• Islamic ruler (Egypt)
• Born in 1149
• Died 1171
• Man