Ruler · 787 – 813

Al-Amin

Lived 787 – 813. Abbasid caliph of Abbasid Caliphate, 809 – 813.

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Lived: 787 – 813; 26 years
In office: 4 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Abbasid Caliphate
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Abbasid caliph

Abbasid Caliphate · the 6th of 43 dated reigns · 750 – 1302

2 before

Al-Mahdi775 – 785

Al-Hadi785 – 786

Harun al-Rashid786 – 809

Al-Amin809 – 813

Al-Ma'mun813 – 833

Al-Mu'tasim833 – 842

Al-Wathiq842 – 847

34 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 809 – 813 · 4 years · came to it aged 22

Came to it: inheritedthe child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; killing

Al-Amin succeeded his father, Harun al-Rashid, in 809 and ruled until he was deposed and killed in 813, during the civil war by his half-brother, al-Ma'mun.

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