Packet F: Tossup 13

A fortress-like mosque often named for a member of this dynasty, the Lulua Mosque, was restored by the Dawoodi Bohras. The Armenian general Badr al-Jamali was summoned to support this dynasty’s ruler (10[1])al-Mustansir during the last (-5[1])regional (-5[1])famine cataloged (-5[1])by [emphasize] later (10[1])historian (-5[1])al-Maqrizi. (-5[1])Caliph (-5[1])al-Qadir (10[1])wrote (-5[1])the Baghdad Manifesto against (10[1])this dynasty. Under al-Mu’izz, this dynasty moved its (-5[1])capital (10[1])from Mahdia in its homeland of Ifriqiya. (10[5]-5[1])A ruler (10[1])of this (10[1])polity who mysteriously disappeared into the night, (10[4]-5[3])Al-Hakim, (10[4])received (10[2])the epithet (10[1])“the Mad (10[1]-5[1])Caliph” (-5[3])for his religious (10[3])intolerance. (10[2]-5[2])This dynasty founded al-Azhar (10[1])University and replaced (-5[1])Fustat (10[3])as the capital (10[1])of Islamic (10[1])Egypt. (10[1]-5[2])For 10 points, (10[1])what (-5[1])Shia caliphate preceded (10[3]-5[1])Saladin’s (10[1]-5[1])Ayyubids (10[1])in (10[1])Egypt (10[1])and was (10[1])named for a daughter (10[2])of Muhammad? (10[5])■END■ (10[26]0[11])

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