High Middle Ages · Middle East · Religion
1094
Fatimid Succession Crisis Splits Ismaili Islam
1094
The death of al-Mustansir triggered a succession dispute that would permanently fracture Ismaili Shi'ism. The vizier al-Afdal installed the younger son al-Musta'li on the throne, bypassing the elder Nizar, whose supporters fled to Persia and the mountain fortress of Alamut. The Nizari-Musta'li schism created two irreconcilable branches of Ismaili Islam - a division that persists to this day, with the Aga Khan leading the Nizari line.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.