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Before the Fatimids took Jerusalem, and even for a short time afterwards, the Fatimid Caliphate was in negotiations with the Crusaders to form a alliance that would give the Crusaders northern Syria and the Fatimid caliphate Jerusalem. The Fatimid Caliphate seized Jerusalem during the course of the negotiations and offered the Crusaders safe pilgrimage if they only came in small numbers. With the Fatimid seizing of Jerusalem an alliance became all bu impossible. What if the Fatimid Caliphate hadn't taken advantage of a period of weakness in the Turkish controllers of Jerusalem or what if the Turks had managed to fend off the Fatimids and the Crusader Fatimid alliance had born fruit?
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