Around the year 1000
the caliph of Egypt, Al-Hakim
, went down in history for his eccentricities. Some accuse him of having provoked the Crusades in order to demolish a church, and others say they came to be regarded as the incarnation of God. The official religion of the Caliphate was the Ismaili
(which is a faction of the Shi'a). One faction Isma'ili with mystical and Gnostic tendencies won the favor of a new Caliph and began preaching in 1017 coincided with an edict of religious freedom, this faction became known later as the Druze
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