High Middle Ages · Middle East · Politics
1169
Saladin named vizier of Egypt
March 26, 1169
After his uncle Shirkuh died two months into the office, the thirty-year-old Kurdish officer was chosen vizier by the last Fatimid caliph - on the theory that he would be a pliant young man. Within two years he was dismantling the Shia caliphate and running Egypt for his own sultan.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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