Al-Mu'tadid

Al - Mu'tadid bi- ' llah, Arabic المعتضد بالله أحمد بن طلحة al - Mu'tadid bi- ' llah Ahmad ibn Talha, al -Mu ʿ DMG taḍid bi- ' llāh Aḥmad b. Talha († April 5 902) was the sixteenth Abbasid Caliph ( 892-902 ).

Abu l - Abbas Ahmad ibn al - Muwaffaq ibn al- Mutawakkil al - Mu'tadid joined 892 succeeded his uncle al - Mu'tamid ( 870-892 ) to. As the son of the regent al - Muwaffaq ( 875-891 ), he had already participated in the battles against the Sandjsklaven in southern Iraq and 885 led a campaign against the Tulunids in Syria.

After the death of his father he took over his office and forced al - Mutamid to appoint him as his successor. Under the reign of Abu l - Abbas Ahmad the residence of the caliphs of Samarra was shortly before the death of al - Mutamid again moved to Baghdad ( 892 ).

Under his government controlled the Caliph only to Iraq, northern Syria and western Iran. He managed, however, to consolidate in these areas, the Abbasid rule by fighting insubordinate governor and the state finances could renovate again. Although he recognized the rule of Tulunids in Egypt and married a daughter Chumarawaihs, but he was already a very rich dowry and annual tribute. This compensation could bring back firmly under the control of the Abbasid administration and fight the Hamdanids in northern Syria successful al - Mutadid northern Syria.

However, spread under his rule the movement of the Ismaili Qarmatis in Iraq. 899 they founded in eastern Arabia (al- Hasa and Bahrain), a state that eluded in the period following the reign of the Caliph and fought the Abbasids. Even in Syria won the Ismaili Fatimid influence among the Bedouins of the Syrian Desert. However, a riot of Bedouins was quelled before Damascus ( 901).

Al- Mu'tadid tried again at the heyday of the Abbasids under al - Ma'mun to tie at the beginning of the 9th century. He was a follower of the doctrine of the Mu'tazilites and tried to bring it back amplified to advantage. However, this led to the opposition of the Muslims, in which the doctrine of the Hanbali had prevailed. Al- Mutadid died on 5 April 902 was allegedly poisoned. The successor al - Mutadids took his son al - Muktafi ( 902-908 ).