He contemplated the stars and swam in his theological fantasies, but when he disappeared in 1421 AD – and was perhaps murdered – his followers claimed he had not died nor been killed, but rather was living in hiding from people. In any case, the Fatimid state left us many manifestations of great civilization, indicated by Al-Azhar, which still spreads its knowledge to this day, and by architecture, and even the making of musical instruments, though Islam forbade them, and by numerous decorations. The Fatimid era that Egypt went through had Shiite leanings. Despite their call for asceticism and piety, it is mentioned that the Fatimid Caliph Al-Mustansir had thirty thousand souls in his palace, including twelve thousand servants and a thousand horsemen and guards. The traveler Nasir Khusraw mentioned that he saw the Caliph on a mule, a handsome young man with a clean-shaven face, and beside him stood a chamberlain carrying an umbrella studded with precious stones. He mentioned that the Caliph owned twenty thousand houses in the capital, most of them built of brick, each house with five or six floors, and at the bottom were shops, each shop rented for between two and ten dinars. It was his custom to ride on swift steeds with women and servants to a pleasure resort he had established, and perhaps