Note 34 — Chapter V
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As evidence may be cited his complete breach with the Carmathians, although they were the source of the Fátimid revolution. Twice they invaded Egypt shortly after the Fátimid conquest, in 971 and again in 974, and even laid siege to Cairo, and forced their way through one of the gates. The invincible hostility of Mo‘izz to these Arabian brigands had doubtless a political basis, but had he held the advanced views of the Shí‘a propaganda he would hardly have quarrelled with its grand master.