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Al-Mu'tamid, the Glossary

Abu’l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar (أبو العباس أحمد بن جعفر; – 14 October 892), better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtamid ʿalā ’llāh (المعتمد على الله, 'Dependent on God'), was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 870 to 892.^[1]

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840s births
892 deaths
9th-century Abbasid caliphs

Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Abbasid dynasty

The Abbasid dynasty or Abbasids (Banu al-ʿAbbās) were an Arab dynasty that ruled the Abbasid Caliphate between 750 and 1258.

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Abbasid Samarra

Samarra is a city in central Iraq, which served as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from 836 to 892.

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Ahmad ibn Tulun

Ahmad ibn Tulun (translit; c. 20 September 835 – 10 May 884) was the founder of the Tulunid dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria between 868 and 905.

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Al-Awasim

Al-ʿAwāṣim (العواصم, "the defences, fortifications"; sing. al-ʿāṣimah, اَلْـعَـاصِـمَـة, "protectress") was the Arabic term used to refer to the Muslim side of the frontier zone between the Byzantine Empire and the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates in Cilicia, northern Syria and Upper Mesopotamia.

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Al-Jazira (caliphal province)

Al-Jazira (الجزيرة), also known as Jazirat Aqur or Iqlim Aqur, was a province of the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, spanning at minimum most of Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira proper), divided between the districts of Diyar Bakr, Diyar Rabi'a and Diyar Mudar, and at times including Mosul, Arminiya and Adharbayjan as sub-provinces.

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Al-Mu'tadid

Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa al-Muwaffaq (أبو العباس أحمد بن طلحة الموفق), 853/4 or 860/1 – 5 April 902, better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh (المعتضد بالله, "Seeking Support in God"), was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 892 until his death in 902. Al-Mu'tamid and al-Mu'tadid are 9th-century Abbasid caliphs.

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Al-Mu'tazz

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar (أبو عبد الله محمد بن جعفر; 847 – 16 July 869), better known by his regnal title al-Muʿtazz bi-ʾllāh (المعتز بالله, "He who is strengthened by God") was the Abbasid caliph from 866 to 869, during a period of extreme internal instability within the Abbasid Caliphate, known as the "Anarchy at Samarra". Al-Mu'tamid and al-Mu'tazz are 9th-century Abbasid caliphs, Prisoners and detainees of the Abbasid Caliphate and sons of Abbasid caliphs.

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Al-Mufawwid

Ja'far ibn Ahmad al-Mu'tamid (Arabic: جعفر بن أحمد المعتمد), better known by his laqab al-Mufawwid ila-llah (The One Deferring to God), was a son of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tamid and heir-apparent of the Caliphate from 875 until his sidelining by his cousin al-Mu'tadid in 891. Al-Mu'tamid and al-Mufawwid are 9th-century Arab people and sons of Abbasid caliphs.

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Al-Muhtadi

Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn al-Wāthiq (أبو إسحاق محمد بن هارون الواثق&lrm;; – 21 June 870), better known by his regnal name al-Muhtadī bi-'llāh (Arabic: المهتدي بالله, "Guided by God"), was the Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from July 869 to June 870, during the "Anarchy at Samarra". Al-Mu'tamid and al-Muhtadi are 9th-century Abbasid caliphs and sons of Abbasid caliphs.

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Al-Mutawakkil

Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Harun (translit); March 82211 December 861, commonly known by his regnal name al-Mutawwakil ala Allah (lit), was the tenth Abbasid caliph, ruling from 847 until his assassination in 861. Al-Mu'tamid and al-Mutawakkil are 9th-century Abbasid caliphs and sons of Abbasid caliphs.

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Al-Muwaffaq

Abu Ahmad Talha ibn Ja'far (أبو أحمد طلحة بن جعفر; 29 November 843 – 2 June 891), better known by his as Al-Muwaffaq Billah, was an Abbasid prince and military leader, who acted as the de facto regent of the Abbasid Caliphate for most of the reign of his brother, Caliph al-Mu'tamid. Al-Mu'tamid and al-Muwaffaq are 9th-century Arab people and sons of Abbasid caliphs.

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Ali al-Hadi

ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hādī (عَلي إبن مُحَمَّد الهادي; 828 – 868 CE) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the tenth Imam in Twelver Shia, succeeding his father, Muhammad al-Jawad. Al-Mu'tamid and ali al-Hadi are 9th-century Arab people.

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Amir al-Mu'minin

(أَمِيْر ٱلْمُؤْمِنِيْن) or Commander of the Faithful is a Muslim title designating the supreme leader of an Islamic community.

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Anarchy at Samarra

The Anarchy at Samarra was a period of extreme internal instability from 861 to 870 in the history of the Abbasid Caliphate, marked by the violent succession of four caliphs, who became puppets in the hands of powerful rival military groups.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Arabic name

Arabic language names have historically been based on a long naming system.

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Arminiya

Arminiya, also known as the Ostikanate of Arminiya (Հայաստանի Օստիկանություն, Hayastani ostikanut'yun) or the Emirate of Armenia (إمارة أرمينية, imārat armīniya), was a political and geographic designation given by the Muslim Arabs to the lands of Greater Armenia, Caucasian Iberia, and Caucasian Albania, following their conquest of these regions in the 7th century.

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Ashot I of Armenia

Ashot I (Աշոտ Ա; c. 820 – 890) was an Armenian king who oversaw the beginning of Armenia's second golden age (862 – 977).

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Bagratid Armenia

Bagratid Armenia was an independent Armenian state established by Ashot I Bagratuni of the Bagratuni dynasty in the early 880s following nearly two centuries of foreign domination of Greater Armenia under Arab Umayyad and Abbasid rule.

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Battle of Dayr al-Aqul

The Battle of Dayr al-Aqul was fought on 8 April 876, between forces of the Saffarid ruler Ya'qub ibn Laith and the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Bilad al-Sham

Bilad al-Sham (Bilād al-Shām), often referred to as Islamic Syria or simply Syria in English-language sources, was a province of the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphates.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Caliphate

A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.

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Cilicia

Cilicia is a geographical region in southern Anatolia, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Damascus

Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.

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Egypt in the Middle Ages

Following the Islamic conquest in 641-642, Lower Egypt was ruled at first by governors acting in the name of the Rashidun Caliphs and then the Umayyad Caliphs in Damascus, but in 750 the Umayyads were overthrown.

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Euphrates

The Euphrates (see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.

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Fars province

Fars province (استان فارس) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Gold dinar

The gold dinar (ﺩﻳﻨﺎﺭ ذهبي) is an Islamic medieval gold coin first issued in AH 77 (696–697 CE) by Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.

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Greater Khorasan

Greater KhorāsānDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed.

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Haditha

Haditha (حَدِيثَةٌ, al-Ḥadīthah) is a town in the Al Anbar Governorate, about northwest of Baghdad.

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Hugh N. Kennedy

Hugh Nigel Kennedy (born 22 October 1947) is a British medievalist and academic.

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Hulwan

Hulwan (حلوان) was an ancient town on the Zagros Mountains in western Iran, located on the entrance of the Paytak Pass, nowadays identified with the town of Sarpol-e Zahab.

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Ifriqiya

Ifriqiya, also known as al-Maghrib al-Adna (المغرب الأدنى), was a medieval historical region comprising today's Tunisia and eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania (roughly western Libya).

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Ishaq ibn Kundaj

Ishaq ibn Kundaj or Kundajiq, was a Turkic military leader who played a prominent role in the turbulent politics of the Abbasid Caliphate in the late 9th century.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Isma'il ibn Bulbul

Abuʾl-Ṣaqr Ismāʿīl ibn Bulbul (844/5–891) was a prominent official of the Abbasid Caliphate during the reign of al-Mu'tamid (r. 870–892), serving as vizier of the Caliphate from 878 to 892. Al-Mu'tamid and Isma'il ibn Bulbul are 840s births and Prisoners and detainees of the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Jibal

Jibāl (جبال), also al-Jabal (الجبل), was the name given by the Arabs to a region and province located in western Iran, under the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates.

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Kufa

Kufa (الْكُوفَة), also spelled Kufah, is a city in Iraq, about south of Baghdad, and northeast of Najaf.

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List of Abbasid caliphs

The Abbasid caliphs were the holders of the Islamic title of caliph who were members of the Abbasid dynasty, a branch of the Quraysh tribe descended from the uncle of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib. Al-Mu'tamid and List of Abbasid caliphs are 9th-century Abbasid caliphs.

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List of caliphs

A caliph is the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the caliphate.

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Mawla

Mawlā (مَوْلَى, plural mawālī مَوَالِي), is a polysemous Arabic word, whose meaning varied in different periods and contexts.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Mihrajanqadhaq

Mihragan-kadag (Middle Persian), mentioned in Islamic works in the Arabized forms Mihrajanqadhaq (مهرجانقذق) and Mihrajan Qashaq, was a district and province in the western Jibal, on the borders with modern-day Iraq, in the early Middle Ages.

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Mosul

Mosul (al-Mawṣil,,; translit; Musul; Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate.

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Muhammad ibn Tahir

Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn Tahir ibn 'Abdallah (أبو عبد الله محمد بن طاهر بن عبد الله, died c. 910) was the last Tahirid governor of Khurasan, from 862 until 873.

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Musa ibn Bugha al-Kabir

Musa ibn Bugha al-Kabir (died 877) was an Abbasid military leader of Turkic origin.

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Patronymic

A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor.

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Qarmatians

The Qarmatians (Qarāmiṭa) were a militant Isma'ili Shia movement centred in al-Hasa in Eastern Arabia, where they established a religious—and, as some scholars have claimed, proto-socialist or utopian socialist—state in 899 CE.

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Regnal name

A regnal name, regnant name, or reign name is the name used by monarchs and popes during their reigns and subsequently, historically.

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Sa'id ibn Makhlad

Sa'id ibn Makhlad (died 889) was a senior official of the Abbasid Caliphate. Al-Mu'tamid and Sa'id ibn Makhlad are 9th-century Arab people.

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Saffarid dynasty

The Saffarid dynasty (safāryān) was a Persianate dynasty of eastern Iranian origin that ruled over parts of Persia, Greater Khorasan, and eastern Makran from 861 to 1002.

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Samarra

Samarra (سَامَرَّاء) is a city in Iraq.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Sulayman ibn Wahb

Abu Ayyub Sulayman ibn Wahb (died July/August 885) was a senior official of the Abbasid Caliphate who served several times as vizier. Al-Mu'tamid and Sulayman ibn Wahb are 9th-century Arab people and Prisoners and detainees of the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Tabaristan

Tabaristan or Tabarestan (Ṭabarestān, or Tabarestun, ultimately from Middle Persian:, Tapur(i)stān), was a mountainous region located on the Caspian coast of northern Iran.

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Turkic peoples

The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages.

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Ubayd Allah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khāqān (أبو الحسن عبيد الله بن يحيى بن خاقان) was an Abbasid official who served twice as vizier, under caliphs al-Mutawakkil and al-Mu'tamid. Al-Mu'tamid and Ubayd Allah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan are Prisoners and detainees of the Abbasid Caliphate.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mu'tamid

Also known as Al Moatamid, Al Mutamid, Al-Mutamid, Al-Mutammid, Al-Muʿtamid, Motamid.

, Patronymic, Qarmatians, Regnal name, Sa'id ibn Makhlad, Saffarid dynasty, Samarra, Shia Islam, Sulayman ibn Wahb, Sunni Islam, Tabaristan, Turkic peoples, Ubayd Allah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan, Vizier (Abbasid Caliphate), Wasit, Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, Zanj, Zanj Rebellion, Zaydism.

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840s births

892 deaths

9th-century Abbasid caliphs

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