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    Ahmad Abdallah ibn al-Mustansir bi'llah (Arabic: أبو أحمد عبد الله بن المستنصر بالله), better known by his regnal title Al-Mustaʿṣim bi-llāh (Arabic: المستعصم...
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  • Abū Yahya Zakariya al-Musta'sim bi'llah (Arabic: أبو يحيى زكريا المستعصم بالله; died 1389) was the eighth Abbasid caliph of Cairo under the tutelage of...
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    provocations from its ruler, caliph al-Musta'sim. Within a few weeks, Baghdad fell and was sacked by the Mongol army—al-Musta'sim was killed alongside hundreds...
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    Al-Musta'sim Billah Mosque (Arabic: مسجد المستعصم بالله), formerly the Abu Rabi'ah Mosque, is a Sunni mosque and shrine located in the district of al-A'dhamiyya...
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    Baghdad by the Mongols under Hulagu Khan and the execution of Caliph al-Musta'sim. A surviving line of Abbasids was re-installed in the Mamluk capital...
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  • Caliph Al-Musta'sim in 1258, these Cairene Caliphs had resided in Cairo as nominal rulers used to legitimize the actual rule of the Mamluk sultans. Al-Mutawakkil...
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    December 1242. His son Al-Musta'sim succeeded him as the thirty-seventh and last Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate. One of Al-Mustansir's concubines was...
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  • member of the Abbasid house who was imprisoned by his nephew the Caliph al-Musta'sim in Baghdad. Following the Sack of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, he...
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  • called the name of the Al-Mu'tasim. He remained in succession until 791 AH and returned to the office, removed Al-Musta'sim. Al-Mutawakil continued the...
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  • According to the historian, Angelika Hartmann, al-Nasir was the last effective Abbasid caliph. Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid caliph of Baghdad. In the centuries...
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  • last Abbasid caliph al-Musta'sim, Abu'l-Qasim Ahmad al-Mustansir, was proclaimed caliph in Cairo in 1261. Al-Hakim I joined Ahmad al-Mustansir's invasion...
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    Abu al-ʿAbbās Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās (Arabic: أبو العباس عبد الله ابن محمد ابن علي‎; 721/722 – 8 June 754), known...
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    al-Din Yaqut, better known as Yaqut al-Musta‘simi because he served Caliph al-Musta‘sim, the last Abbasid caliph. He was a slave in the court of al-Musta'sim...
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    Qur'an. He was the son of Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, an uncle of Muhammad, and a nephew of Maymunah bint al-Harith, who later became Muhammad's wife...
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    Syria and the Abbasid Caliph al-Musta'sim in Baghdad defied the Mamluk move in Egypt and refused to recognize Shajar al-Durr as a Sultana but the Mamluks...
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    Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd (Arabic: أبو إسحاق محمد بن هارون الرشيد; October 796 – 5 January 842), better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaṣim biʾllāh...
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    Herat, an advisor of Caliph Al-Musta'sim and his son Ahmad, commander of Baghdad's cavalry and descendant of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari were killed by the pillaging...
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    collapse, and the Mongols swarm into the city, on February 10. Caliph Al-Musta'sim surrenders himself to Hulagu – together with all the Abbasid chief officers...
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    present there during the time of the murder of the last Abbasid caliph Al-Musta'sim in 1258. Driven off by the Mongol invasion of Baghdad, they continued...
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    Abū al-ʿAbbās Abd Allāh ibn Hārūn al-Maʾmūn (Arabic: أبو العباس عبد الله بن هارون الرشيد, romanized: Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn ar-Rashīd; 14...
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    Muḥammad al-Mahdī), or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī (Arabic: هَارُون ٱبْنِ ٱلْمَهْدِيّ; c. 763 or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Hārūn al-Rāshīd (Arabic:...
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  • consort of the last Abbasid caliph, al-Musta'sim (r. 1242–1258) and mother of Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Musta'sim. She was a slave bought to the Harem...
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  • Abd al-Wahid I 'al-Makhlu' 1224 Abdallah al-Adil 1224–1227 Yahya 'al-Mutasim' 1227–1229 Abu al-Ala Idris I al-Ma'mun, 1229–1232 Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahid...
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    demanded surrender, but the caliph, Al-Musta'sim, refused. Due to the treason of Abu Alquma, an advisor to Al-Musta'sim, an uprising in the Baghdad army...
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    terms with the Mongols. However, Möngke told Hulagu that if the caliph Al-Musta'sim refused to meet him in person, then Hulagu was to destroy Baghdad. Hulagu...
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  • Hulagu during the campaign and his secret correspondence with Caliph Al-Musta'sim. 2015–2016 — Portrayed by Barış Bağcı in Turkish historical drama series...
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    He is said to have led the negotiations with the Caliph of Baghdad, al-Musta'sim, but in vain. Prosh Khaghbakian was the main source for the account of...
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  • Almohad ruler Abd al-Wahid II, accession of Abu al-Hasan as-Said al-Mutadid. Death of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mustansir, accession of Al-Musta'sim. 1244: The Almohad...
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    likewise to the sultan Al-Musta'sim after the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the Mongol army. (Marco Polo's version is that Al-Musta'sim was locked without food...
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    refugee Abu al-Qasim Ahmad, the uncle of the last Abbasid caliph al-Musta'sim, arrived in Cairo in 1261, Baybars had him proclaimed caliph as al-Mustansir...
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