Al-Muqtafi

Al- Muqtafi li - amr Allah Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al - Mustazhir (Arabic المقتفي لأمر الله أبو عبد الله محمد بن المستظهر, DMG al - ʾ amri Muqtafī li - ' Abū ʿ Abd Allāh Muḥammad llāh b al - Mustazhir; . * 9 April 1096; . † March 12, 1160 ) was from 1136 until his death thirty-first Caliph of the Abbasid dynasty.

Al- Muqtafi was determined in 1136 as the son of al - Mustazhir from the Seljuk successor of Masud al-Rashid ( 1135-1136 ). As al - Mustarschid (1118-1135), he used the increasing power struggles of his Seljuk overlords to expand its influence. According to Masud 's death ( 1152 ) and the withdrawal of the Seljuk garrison from Baghdad was al - Muqtafi with the help of the vizier al-Din Ibn Aun Hubaira an army to the exclusion of Turkish mercenaries build ( ie, Arabs and Kurds ); Baghdad was reattached. Due to the catchment Seljuk military fief ( IQTA ) could al - Muqtafi expand the financial base of his reign. Soon, he practiced as the first Caliph for over 200 years back real power in Iraq between Tikrit and Basra.

After 1154 - Sultan Muhammad II in Hamadan was now - a Seljuk campaign against Baghdad in Bazimza had failed and al - Muqtafi 1155 had the Seldschukenprinzen Sulaiman Shah recognized as counter- Sultan and his vain attempt to conquer Jibal, support, tried Sultan Muhammad 1157 again to force the submission of the Abbasids. There was heavy fighting, in which the Zengids and Mazyadiden were involved, but should the siege of Baghdad thanks to al - Muqtafis and Ibn Hubairas skillful propaganda and diplomacy ultimately fail. So the Caliph had reached that Eldigüz, the Atabeg of Azerbaijan marched into Persia, what Muhammad forced to retreat and secured the independence of the Abbasids. After Muhammad's death ( 1159 ) was al - Muqtafis candidate Sulaiman Shah briefly Sultan ( 1160 ); the caliph himself followed a little later by his son al - Mustandschid after (r. 1160-1170 ).

Caliph ( Abbasid )
Born in 1096
Died in 1160
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