As a vassal state, due to political conflict with the Fatimids, in around 1048 the dynasty changed alliagance to the Sunni Abbasid Caliphate and the ruling elite switched from Shia (Zaydi or Ismaili) Islam to Sunnism. See Idris H. Roger, L'invasion hilālienne et ses conséquences, in : Cahiers de civilisation médiévale (43), Jul.-Sep. 1968, pp.353-369. [1]Arxivləşdirilib 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine and Berry, LaVerle. "Fatamids". Libya: A Country Study. Library of Congress. 5 April 2016 tarixində arxivləşdirilib. İstifadə tarixi: 5 March 2011.
Juan R. I. Cole, "Rival Empires of Trade and Imami Shiism in Eastern Arabia, 1300-1800", International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2. (May, 1987), pp. 177-203, at p. 179, through JSTOR. [2]Arxivləşdirilib 2017-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
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As a vassal state, due to political conflict with the Fatimids, in around 1048 the dynasty changed alliagance to the Sunni Abbasid Caliphate and the ruling elite switched from Shia (Zaydi or Ismaili) Islam to Sunnism. See Idris H. Roger, L'invasion hilālienne et ses conséquences, in : Cahiers de civilisation médiévale (43), Jul.-Sep. 1968, pp.353-369. [1]Arxivləşdirilib 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine and Berry, LaVerle. "Fatamids". Libya: A Country Study. Library of Congress. 5 April 2016 tarixində arxivləşdirilib. İstifadə tarixi: 5 March 2011.
As a vassal state, due to political conflict with the Fatimids, in around 1048 the dynasty changed alliagance to the Sunni Abbasid Caliphate and the ruling elite switched from Shia (Zaydi or Ismaili) Islam to Sunnism. See Idris H. Roger, L'invasion hilālienne et ses conséquences, in : Cahiers de civilisation médiévale (43), Jul.-Sep. 1968, pp.353-369. [1]Arxivləşdirilib 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine and Berry, LaVerle. "Fatamids". Libya: A Country Study. Library of Congress. 5 April 2016 tarixində arxivləşdirilib. İstifadə tarixi: 5 March 2011.
Juan R. I. Cole, "Rival Empires of Trade and Imami Shiism in Eastern Arabia, 1300-1800", International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2. (May, 1987), pp. 177-203, at p. 179, through JSTOR. [2]Arxivləşdirilib 2017-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
