The Fatimid-era Egyptian sea captain Domiyat travels to a Buddhist site of pilgrimage in Shandong in 1008, where he presents the Chinese Emperor Zhenzong of Song with gifts from his ruling Imam Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, establishing diplomatic relations between Egypt and China that had been lost during the collapse of the Tang Dynasty in 907 (the Fatimid state had been established a few years later, in 910).