al-Muqtadi

Abu l-Qasim Abdallah ibn Muhammad adh-Dhachira ibn Abdallah al-Qa'im al-Muqtadi bi-amri 'llah ( Arabic أبو القاسم عبد الله بن محمد الذخيرة بن عبد الله القائم المقتدي بأمر الله, DMG Abū 'l-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad aḏ-Ḏaḫīra b. ʿAbd Allaah al-Qāʾim al-Muqtadī bi-amri 'llāh ) was the twenty-seventh caliph of the Abbasids (1075-1094).

Al-Muqtadi was born the son of Caliph al-Qa'im and an Armenian female slave.

Like his predecessor, his father al-Qaim (Caliph 1031-1075), al-Muqtadi was under the patronage of the Seljuks . He had no political influence, but the claim of the caliphs to have the power to legitimize military conquests, among others , was contested by Nizam al-Mulk , the vizier of the Seljuks (see also: Caliphate - The Theory of the Caliphate).

By violating these interests, the relations between the Seljuks and Abbasids were soon so bad that Malik Shah I (1072-1092) al-Muqtadi is said to have suggested moving to Damascus or the Hejaz . Since 1089, however, the efforts of Malik Shah and Nizam al-Mulk have improved relations slightly. Al-Muqtadi was succeeded by al- Mustazhir (1094–1118).

literature

• Heinz Halm : Caliphs and Assassins: Egypt and the Middle East at the time of the first crusades 1074-1171. CH Beck, Munich 2014, pp. 26, 87 (on books.google.de )
• Wolfgang Kallfelz: Non-Muslim subjects in Islam: basis, ideology and practice of the policy of early Islamic rulers towards their non-Muslim subjects with a special focus on the Abbasid dynasty (749-1248). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1995, p. 136 (on books.google.de )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Amira K. Bennison: The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire. Yale University Press, Princeton 2009, p. 47.

predecessor	Office	successor
al-Qa'im bi-amri 'llah	Abbasid Caliph 1075-1094	al-Mustazhir