Ali bin Jaafar bin Falah Al-Kutami (..._409 AH /...- 1018 AD)Minister of Ministers to the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim Bi Amr Allah (386-411 AH)

Abstract

    The Katamids gained a prominent position among the Fatimid caliphs, as they assumed important administrative and military positions in the leadership of the Fatimid army and state affairs. Through the efforts and sacrifices of this tribe, the Fatimid Caliphate was established in North Africa until it controlled all of Morocco, and with the loyalty of its sons it moved from Morocco to Egypt and extended until it entered the Levant from Within its possessions, it reached Antioch and Alexandretta, that is, this Kuttami leader had the best luck with the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim Bi Amr Allah (386-411 AH), in assuming the position of Minister of Ministers, as no one had ever before assumed this position and given this name and title to him without other ministers. Who preceded in the history of the Fatimid Caliphate, this leader was Ali bin Jaafar bin Falah Al-Kutami from his early childhood in the service of the Fatimid caliphs, and he was preceded in this by his grandfather Falah Al-Kutami (d. 345 AH), who appeared as a prominent Fatimid leader and ruler of the cities of the eastern wing of the Fatimid Caliphate, meaning that he was “the ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate.” The city of Tripoli, Cyrenaica, and Baja , and his father, Jaafar bin Falah Al-Kutami (d. 360 AH), who led the Fatimid soldiers to conquer Egypt and who annexed the Levant to the possessions of the Fatimids in the year (359 AH / 969 AD) and until his murder in the city of Damascus at the hands of Al-A’sam Al-Qarmati in defense of The lands of the Fatimids in the Levant, and his three brothers before him who spent their lives serving the Fatimid caliphs