 Aghlabid rule was short-lived, and they were deposed by the Shiite Fatimid dynasty in 909.By around 960, the Fatimids had conquered Abbasid Egypt, building a capital there in 973 called ""al-Qahirah"" (meaning "the planet of victory", known today as Cairo).In Persia the Turkic Ghaznavids snatched power from the Abbasids.