The Role of Prostitutes in the Politics of the Fatimid State (297-567 AH / 909 -1171 AD)

Abstract

The Fatimid state emerged and established its pillars on the principles of Ismaili Shi'ism in Morocco in the year 297AH / 909AD, and extended its influence towards the Orient until it managed in 358AH / 968 AD from the status of their state to Egypt. Masrhat has been one of the methods of rapprochement and social mixing between families since ancient times, but when these relations are based on political interests must be effective positive and negative, and perhaps the easiest solutions to end the political disputes and rapprochement between the parties to the conflicts, Salami in many political rallies, which reflected the impact on the policy of the state.

The research dealt with the role of political masculine in the history of the Fatimid state. The study dealt with a brief introduction of the history of the Fatimid state in the first part to the auxiliary factors that led to the masrhas and the reasons of the Fatimids' resort to it. The Fatimid caliphs were referred to in the historical sources in the second section. On the most important political and social effects of these masques on the policy of the state and influence on the prosperity or weakness and fragmentation.