 The Nizari coins has referred to Alamut as "kursī ad-Daylam" (, literally "Capital of Daylam").Most Ismaili Shias outside North Africa, mostly in Persia and Syria, came to acknowledge Nizar ibn al-Mustansir's claim to the Imamate as maintained by Hassan-i Sabbah, and this point marks the fundamental split between Ismaili Shias.Within two generations, the Fatimid Empire would suffer several more splits and eventually implode.