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Sitt al-Mulk (970–1023) , Ruler of the Fatimids (1021-1023), was the elder sister of Al-Hakim
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah

Abu ?Ali Mansur Tariqu l-?akim, called bi Amr al-Lah , was the sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam .Born in 985, Abu ?Ali ?Mansur? succeeded his father Al-Aziz at the age of eleven on 14 October, 996 with the caliphal title of al-Hakim Bi-Amr Allah....
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After the death of her father Ali az-Aziz
Abu Mansoor Nizar al-Aziz Billah

Al-Aziz was the fifth Caliph of the Fatimids .Since Abdallah, the heir to the throne, had died before his father Ma'ad al-Muizz Li-Deenillah , his brother Abu l-Mansur Nizar al-Aziz acceded to the Caliphate with the help of Jawhar as-Siqilli....
 (975-996), she tried with the help of a cousin to force her brother from the throne, but was arrested by the eunuch
Eunuch

A eunuch is a castrated man, in particular one castrated early enough to have major hormonal consequences; the term usually refers to those castrated in order to perform a specific social function, as was common in many societies of the past....
 Barjuwan. However, she became regent for his son and successor Ali az-Zahir
Ali az-Zahir

'?Ali az-Zahir' was the Seventh Caliph of the Fatimid . Az-Zahir assumed the Caliphate after the disappearance of his father Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah....
. She continued to wield influence as an advisor after he came of age, as evidenced by the very generous apanages
Appanage

An apanage or appanage is the grant of an estate, titles, offices, or other things of value to the younger male children of a sovereign, who under the system of primogeniture would otherwise have no inheritance....
 that came her way.

After the assumption of power and the elimination of her rivals, she abolished many of the strange rules that Al-Hakim had promulgated in his reign.






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Sitt al-Mulk (970–1023) , Ruler of the Fatimids (1021-1023), was the elder sister of Al-Hakim
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah

Abu ?Ali Mansur Tariqu l-?akim, called bi Amr al-Lah , was the sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam .Born in 985, Abu ?Ali ?Mansur? succeeded his father Al-Aziz at the age of eleven on 14 October, 996 with the caliphal title of al-Hakim Bi-Amr Allah....
.

After the death of her father Ali az-Aziz
Abu Mansoor Nizar al-Aziz Billah

Al-Aziz was the fifth Caliph of the Fatimids .Since Abdallah, the heir to the throne, had died before his father Ma'ad al-Muizz Li-Deenillah , his brother Abu l-Mansur Nizar al-Aziz acceded to the Caliphate with the help of Jawhar as-Siqilli....
 (975-996), she tried with the help of a cousin to force her brother from the throne, but was arrested by the eunuch
Eunuch

A eunuch is a castrated man, in particular one castrated early enough to have major hormonal consequences; the term usually refers to those castrated in order to perform a specific social function, as was common in many societies of the past....
 Barjuwan. However, she became regent for his son and successor Ali az-Zahir
Ali az-Zahir

'?Ali az-Zahir' was the Seventh Caliph of the Fatimid . Az-Zahir assumed the Caliphate after the disappearance of his father Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah....
. She continued to wield influence as an advisor after he came of age, as evidenced by the very generous apanages
Appanage

An apanage or appanage is the grant of an estate, titles, offices, or other things of value to the younger male children of a sovereign, who under the system of primogeniture would otherwise have no inheritance....
 that came her way.

After the assumption of power and the elimination of her rivals, she abolished many of the strange rules that Al-Hakim had promulgated in his reign. She also severely persecuted the Druze
Druze

The Druze are a religious community found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and in the Palestinian territories whose traditional religion is said to have begun as an offshoot of Islam, but is unique in its incorporation of Gnosticism, Neoplatonism and other philosophies, similar to other followers of Ismaili Shi'a Islam....
 religion, which believed in Al-Hakim's divinity, eliminating it entirely from Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
, and restricting it to the mountains of Lebanon
Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....
. She worked to reduce tensions with the Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
 over the possession of Aleppo
Aleppo

Aleppo is a city in northern Syria, capital of the Aleppo Governorate; the Governorate extends around the city for over 16,000 km? and has a population of 4,393,000, making it the largest Governorate in Syria by population....
, but before negotiations could be completed she died on 5 February 1023 at the age of fifty-two.

Literature: Johanna Awad-Geissler: Die Schattenkalifin. Droemer, München 2007