al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Walker, Paul E.
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Leiden
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Brill
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Al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh Abū l-Maymūn ʿAbd al-Majīd was the eleventh caliph of the Fāṭimid line (r. 297-567/909-1171). Born in ʿAsqalān in 467/1074 or 468/1075 to a son of the caliph al-Mustanṣir (r. 427-87/1036-94), he was the oldest surviving male in the royal family in 524/1130, when his cousin and predecessor, al-Āmir, was assassinated. Absent a clear heir to the throne-the infant son al-Ṭayyib, whose birth had been announced earlier, seems to have left