Al-Mu?ayyad al-Shirazi was a medieval Arabic-Islamic scholar and poet committed to the Fatimid religio-political ideology. Chief missionary for their Caliph-Imams, he founded the dynamic tradition of "Fatimid da?wa (religious mission) poetry" that flourished after him for a thousand years through the succeeding ?ayyibi da?wa and continues to thrive today.

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