al-Muwaffaq (Abbaside)
Abu Ahmad Talha b. Ja'far al-Muwaffaq bi-llah ( Arabic أبو أحمد طلحة بن جعفر الموفق بالله, DMG Abū Aḥmad Ṭalḥa b. Ǧaʿfar al-Muwaffaq bi-'llāh ; * 842 ; † June 2, 891 ) was the ruling regent of the Abbasids under the caliph al-Mu'tamid between 875 and 891 .
Al-Muwaffaq was a brother of al-Mu'tamid (ruled 870-892) and took over the management of the imperial administration in Baghdad in 875 . Soon he had largely ousted the weak al-Mu'tamid from the government.
Under al-Muwaffaq could Caliphate Abbasid be stabilized. So he put down the Zanj uprising in southern Iraq until 883 , increased control over the provinces and also vigorously fought the Tulunids in Syria .
Since al-Muwaffaq increasingly suffered from elephantiasis , his son Abu l-Abbas Ahmad took over the business of government from 889. After al-Muwaffaq's death on June 5, 891, Abu l-Abbas Ahmad of al-Mu'tamid also officially obtained his father's office. Later Abu l-Abbas Ahmad was able to assert himself as caliph under the name al-Mu'tadid bi-'llah (892-902).
literature
- William Muir : Chapter: Al-Mo'tamid and Al-Muwaffak his brother. In: The Caliphate. Its rise, decline, and fall from original sources. John Grant, Edinburgh 1924, pp. 545-552.
- Clifford Edmund Bosworth : The Ṭāhirids and Ṣaffārids. In: Richard Nelson Frye : The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 4: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1975 ( online )
Individual evidence
- ^ Alexandre Popovic : La révolte des Zandj, esclaves noirs importés en Mésopotamie. Problems of sources et perspectives. In: Cahiers de la Méditerranée , Volume 65, 2002, pp. 159–167, paragraph 15 of the digitized version counted here. [accessed on August 10, 2016 (French)].
- ^ William Muir: The Caliphate. Its rise, decline, and fall from original sources. Edinburgh 1924, p. 551.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Al-Muwaffaq |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Regent under Caliph al-Mu'tamid |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 842 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 891 |