<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ayn_Shams_(971)" id="mwKQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Ayn Shams (971)">Battle of Ayn Shams</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" id="mwKg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimids</a> under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawhar_(general)" id="mwKw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jawhar (general)">Jawhar</a> defeat the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qarmatians" id="mwLA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Qarmatians">Qarmatians</a> at the gates of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo" id="mwLQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, putting an end to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Qarmatian_invasion_of_Egypt" id="mwLg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First Qarmatian invasion of Egypt">First Qarmatian invasion of Egypt</a>.<sup about="#mwt27" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_24#cite_note-3" id="mwLw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwMA">[3]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><cite about="#mwt24" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFBrett2001">Brett, Michael (2001). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=BqCdfhW3nVwC" id="mwB_8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCAA">The Rise of the Fatimids: The World of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Fourth Century of the Hijra, Tenth Century CE</i></a>. The Medieval Mediterranean. Vol.<span id="mwCAE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>30. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill. pp.<span id="mwCAI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>314–315. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCAM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCAQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/90-04-11741-5" id="mwCAU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/90-04-11741-5"><bdi id="mwCAY">90-04-11741-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt24" class="Z3988" id="mwCAc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Rise+of+the+Fatimids%3A+The+World+of+the+Mediterranean+and+the+Middle+East+in+the+Fourth+Century+of+the+Hijra%2C+Tenth+Century+CE&amp;rft.place=Leiden%2C+Boston%2C+K%C3%B6ln&amp;rft.series=The+Medieval+Mediterranean&amp;rft.pages=314-315&amp;rft.pub=Brill&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.isbn=90-04-11741-5&amp;rft.aulast=Brett&amp;rft.aufirst=Michael&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DBqCdfhW3nVwC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+24"></span></span>