الفهرس 
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Abstract
The Fatimid state lived for nearly two hundred and seventy years, including Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Hijaz, Yemen and part of the Levant. The Fatimids were stationed in the city of Cairo, which they completed building in 363 AH. The internal and external political life, as the Fatimids were famous for their patronage of science, arts and literature, and this study shows the importance of the position of the ministry, which is the most important position of the Fatimid state and the most dangerous one after the position of the caliph. In the country, as many of them were subjected to isolation, imprisonment, confiscation of their money, torture, murder, and flight, which led to an imbalance in the situation of the Fatimid ministers, and the imbalance of their ministerial functions, then it began to develop and intensify in the second Fatimid era until it matched the influence of the Fatimid caliphs, and they had the actual power in The country, and their contributions to the country’s internal and external policy, which naturally differed from one minister to another and from one period to another, as the ministers’ religion and their different political affiliations were the main engine in their internal and external policies, and their contributions also to architecture and arts in the Fatimid era, as they left us A cultural, architectural and artistic legacy that deserves study.
• The study aims for this research to the following:
1- Shedding light, objectively and impartially, on one of the most important functions in the Fatimid era, which is the function of the ministry.
2- Shedding light on the details of the ministry’s function in the Fatimid era and highlighting its role in the internal politics in Egypt
3- Shedding light on the relations of the Fatimid ministers and their foreign policies and the consequent events and results
4- Shedding light on the contributions of the Fatimid ministers to architecture and the architectural and cultural heritage they left to us.
5- Shedding light on the contributions of the Fatimid ministers to the arts in Egypt, and studying the remaining artifacts.
• The most important results:
1. The different tasks and nature of the work of the ministers of delegation and the ministers of implementation in the Fatimid state.
2. Although the Fatimids, at the beginning of the state, obligated all employees to embrace the Ismaili school of thought, in most periods their policy was based on religious tolerance.
3. Just as the Fatimids did not adhere too much of the religion of their ministers, they also did not adhere to their nationalities, so ministers of different nationalities ministered to them.
4. Minister Ibn Killis laid the foundation for a central, hierarchical system in Egypt, at the head of which is the “Imam.” The administration was divided into three authorities (administrative-judicial-propaganda).
5. The emergence of the phenomenon of inheriting the ministry, as more than one member of the same family took over.
6. The Fatimid state has focused since its inception on preparing a strong and gigantic army.
7. The Fatimids took care of the fleet, and they established a house for the manufacture of fleets
8. The Fatimid state was able to ensure the establishment of good relations with many countries
9. The emergence of the so-called temporary or transitional governments, which indicates the progress of administration systems in the Fatimid era.
10. The Fatimid ministers cared about architecture of all kinds, religious, military and civil. They established mosques, mausoleums, houses and parks. They also cared about patronizing the arts in the Fatimid era.