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Al-Mustazhir
المستظهر
Khalīfah
Amir al-Mu'minin
28th Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate
Abbasid CaliphinBaghdad
Reign3 February 1094 – 6 August 1118
PredecessorAl-Muqtadi
SuccessorAl-Mustarshid

BornApril/May 1078
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Died6 August 1118
(aged 40)
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Burial
Baghdad
Consort
  • Lubanah
  • Ashin
  • Nzhh
  • Aqblan
  • Razin
  • Issue
  • Al-Muqtafi
  • Abu Ishaq Ibrahim
  • Abu'l-Hasan Ali
  • DynastyAbbasid
    FatherAl-Muqtadi
    MotherTayf al-Khayal
    ReligionSunni Islam

    Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abdallah al-Muqtadi (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد بن عبد الله المقتدي) usually known simply by his regnal name Al-Mustazhir billah (Arabic: المستظهر بالله) (b. April/May 1078 – 6 August 1118 d.) was the Abbasid CaliphinBaghdad from 1094 to 1118. He succeeded his father al-Muqtadi as the Caliph. The main and important events during his reign are; appearance of the First Crusade in Western Syria, Muslim protest in Baghdad against crusaders, his efforts to help Mawdud to organize several expeditions to reconquer lands from the Crusaders.

    Biography[edit]

    Al-Mustazhir's father was caliph Al-Muqtadi. His mother was Tayf al-Khayal, a Turkish concubine.[1] He was born in 1078 (the 5th Islamic century). Al-Mustazhir's full name was Ahmad ibn Abdallah al-Muqtadi and his kunya was Abu'l-Abbas.

    When his father died on 3 February 1094 at the age of 37 – 38. Al-Mustazhir succeeded him. At the time of accession to the throne, he was just sixteen years old.

    Amid ad-Dawla[2][3] would remain Abbasid vizier until 1099[2] or 1100,[3] when he was removed from office and imprisoned by the Seljuk sultan Berkyaruq.[3][2] There are different accounts for Amid ad-Dawla's downfall – in one, Mu'ayyad al-Mulk, who had succeeded his father Nizam al-Mulk as Seljuk vizier, had offered the Abbasid vizierate to al-A'azz, and the two collaborated to remove him from office without input from Barkyaruq.[2] In another, Barkyaruq himself fired Amid ad-Dawla and fined him "an enormous sum" for misappropriating government funds before imprisoning him.[3] In any case, Amid ad-Dawla died in prison shortly after, in 1100.[2][3]

    After Amid ad-Dawla's downfall, his brother al-Kafi served as vizier to the Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir from 1102/3 until 1106/7 and then again from 1108/9 until 1113/4.[3]

    During Al-Mustazhir's twenty-four year incumbency he was politically irrelevant, despite the civil strife at home and the appearance of the First CrusadeinSyria. An attempt was even made by crusader Raymond IV of Toulouse to attack Baghdad, but he was defeated near Mersivan during the Crusade of 1101. The global Muslim population had climbed to about 5 per cent as against the Christian population of 11 per cent by 1100.

    Gold Dinar minted with Caliph Al-Mustazhir and Muhammad I Tapar name with the Kalima (492-511 AH/1105-1118 CE). (Citing Al-Mustazhir as the overlord over Seljuk Sultanate)

    In the year 492 AH (AD 1099), Jerusalem was captured by the crusaders and its inhabitants were massacred. Preachers travelled throughout the caliphate proclaiming the tragedy and rousing men to recover from infidel hands Al-Aqsa, the scene of the Prophet's heavenly flight. But whatever the success elsewhere, the mission failed in the eastern provinces, which were occupied with their own troubles, and moreover cared little for the Holy Land, dominated as it then was by the Fatimid faith. Crowds of exiles, seeking refuge in Baghdad, joined there with the populace in crying out for war against the Franks (the name used by Muslims for the crusaders). For two Fridays in 1111 the insurgents, incited by Ibn al-Khashshab, the qadiofAleppo, stormed the Great Mosque, broke the pulpit and throne of the caliph in pieces, and shouted down the service, but neither the sultan nor the caliph were interested in sending an army west.

    Family[edit]

    One of Al-Mustazhir's wives was Ismah Khatun. She was the daughter of Seljuk Sultan Malik-Shah I. Al-Mustazhir married her in Isfahan in 1108–9. She later came to Baghdad and took up residence in the Caliphal Palace. On 3 February 1112, she gave birth to Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, who died of smallpox in October 1114, and was buried in the mausoleum of al-Muqtadir in Rusafah Cemetery, beside his uncle Ja'far, son of the caliph al-Muqtadi. Upon the death of Al-Mustazhir, Ismah returned to Isfahan, where she died, and was buried within the law college that she had founded there on Barracks Market Street.[4] She died in 1141–42.[4] One of his concubines was Lubanah. She was from Baghdad, and was the mother of the future Caliph Al-Mustarshid.[5] She died in 1133–34.[6] Another concubine was Ashin. She was from Syria, and was the mother of the future Caliph Al-Muqtafi.[5] Some other concubines were Nzhh, an Ethiopian, Aqblan, a Turkish and Razin.[1] Another son was Amir Abu'l-Hasan Ali. He died in June 1131.[7]

    Succession[edit]

    Al-Mustazhir died in the year 1118 at the age of 40. He was succeeded by his son Al-Mustarshid as the 29th Abbasid Caliph.

    See also[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ a b Rudainy, Al; Saud, Reem (June 12, 2015). "The Role of Women in the Būyid and Saljūq Periods of the Abbasid Caliphate (339-447/9501055&447-547/1055-1152): The Case of Iraq". University of Exeter. pp. 117, 157. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
  • ^ a b c d e Hanne, Eric (2008). "The Banu Jahir and Their Role in the Abbasid and Saljuq Administrations". Al-Masaq. 20 (1): 29–45. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  • ^ a b c d e f Cahen, Claude (1991). "DJAHĪR". In Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch.; Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Volume II (C-G). Leiden: E.J. Brill. pp. 384–5. ISBN 90 04 07026 5. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  • ^ a b al-Sāʿī, Ibn; Toorawa, Shawkat M.; Bray, Julia (2017). كتاب جهات الأئمة الخلفاء من الحرائر والإماء المسمى نساء الخلفاء: Women and the Court of Baghdad. Library of Arabic Literature. NYU Press. pp. 62, 65, 152 n. 91 and 96, 166. ISBN 978-1-4798-6679-3.
  • ^ a b الدكتور, عبد القادر بوباية ،الأستاذ (2009). الاكتفاء في اخبار الخلفاء 1-2 ج2. الاكتفاء في اخبار الخلفاء 1-2. Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية. pp. 487, 492.
  • ^ al-Athīr, I.D.I.; Richards, D.S. (2006). The Chronicle of Ibn Al-Athīr for the Crusading Period from Al-Kāmil Fīʼl-taʼrīkh. Crusade texts in translation. Ashgate. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-7546-4077-6.
  • ^ Richards, D.S. (2010). The Chronicle of Ibn Al-Athir for the Crusading Period from Al-Kamil Fi'L-Ta'Rikh.: The Years 491-541/1097-1146 the Coming of the Franks and the Muslim Response. Crusade texts in translation. Ashgate. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-7546-6950-0.
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    Born: 1078 Died: 6 August 1118
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    Preceded by

    Al-Muqtadi

    Caliph of Islam
    Abbasid Caliph

    February 1094 – 6 August 1118
    Succeeded by

    Al-Mustarshid


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