Template:Did you know nominations/Al-Adid

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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 15:36, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Al-Adid

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... that the last Fatimid caliph, al-Adid, appointed Saladin to the vizierate, only to see the latter gradually dismantle the Fatimid regime? Source: Summary of the 'Saladin's vizierate' and 'Death and the end of the Fatimid Caliphate' sections. Daftary, p. 252: "Salāh al-Dı̄n Yūsuf b. Ayyūb (d. 589/1193), who received his formal investiture to the vizierate with the laqab of al-Malik al-Nāsir from al-Ādid...rapidly began to consolidate his position and prepare the ground for ending Fātimid rule,...Saladin formally put an end to Fātimid rule when, in Muharram 567/September 1171, he had the khutba read in Cairo in the name of the reigning Abbāsid caliph al-Mustadı̄ (566–575/1170–1180), thus proclaiming Abbāsid suzerainty in Egypt."
- ALT1: ... that the last Fatimid caliph, al-Adid, was raised to the throne as a child, was dominated by his viziers, and died a few days after Saladin abolished the Fatimid regime? Source: Summary of the article. Saleh 2009: "The caliph al-ʿĀḍid was merely a figurehead; real power was exercised by a series of wazīrs beginning with al-Ṣāliḥ Ṭalāʾiʿ b. Ruzzīk (d. 556/1161), who had chosen the boy as caliph...[Saladin] then proceeded to have the name of the ʿAbbāsid caliph proclaimed in Cairo instead of that of the resident Fāṭimid caliph, apparently without protest or opposition. It is likely that al-ʿĀḍid never knew that he had been deposed and his dynasty ended, for he died a few days later, on 10 Muḥarram 567/13 September 1171, at the age of twenty."
- Reviewed: East Timor

Improved to Good Article status by Cplakidas (talk). Self-nominated at 22:52, 16 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Al-Adid; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

Hi Cplakidas (talk), review follows: article promoted to GA on 16 February and is well written; article is cited inline throughout to entirely offline or subscription-based sources; happy to AGF there is no overly close paraphrasing from these sources Earwig check of online material is clear; hooks are interesting, mentioned in the article and cited inline, AGF on sourcing though the extracts above support it; a QPQ has been carried out. Looks fine to me - Dumelow (talk) 13:00, 17 February 2023 (UTC)