Tamīm b. al-Muʿizz - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Poonawala, Ismail K.
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The poet prince Tamīm b. al-Muʿizz (d. 374/985), a son of the fourth Fāṭimid caliph-Imām, al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh (r. 341-65/953-75), was renowned as a poet of elegance and refinement. He was born on 24 Rajab 337/27 January 949, in al-Mahdiyya, in present-day Tunisia, the city founded by the first Fāṭimid caliph-Imām al-Mahdī as his new capital (al-Maqrīzī, al-Muqaffā , 2:588). Soon the capital was moved to the new city of al-Manṣūriyya, built in 337/