Fatimid ExpansionTunisia / Egypt · 909–969“The keepers of the atlas wrote this one down so the fire would not forget it.”A missionary movement of the Ismaili Shi'a, preached among the Kutama Berbers of the Maghreb, did in sixty years what sermons rarely do: it conquered. From Ifriqiya the Fatimid caliphs — claiming descent from the Prophet's daughter herself — pushed their rivals aside until 969, when their general Jawhar took Egypt without a great battle.