The Fatimid chancery deliberately maintained two tiers of court poetry for different audiences

Evidence

Qalqashandı¯ tells us that the Fatimids kept a staff of poets attached to the chancery, divided into two groups—Sunni poets who wrote more respectable Sunni praise, and Isma ili poets who went in for the much more extreme Isma ili adulation of the ruler as Imam. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 469

Categorization

• XREF: A state running two coordinated propaganda tracks for domestic vs. allied audiences mirrors modern dual-language state media and think-tank ‘respectable’ vs. activist outputs.