Ruler · 744 – 785

Al-Mahdi

Lived 744 – 785; politician, poet. Abbasid caliph of Abbasid Caliphate, 775 – 785.

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Lived: 744 – 785; 41 years
In office: 10 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Abbasid Caliphate
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Abbasid caliph

Abbasid Caliphate · the 3rd of 43 dated reigns · 750 – 1302

Al-Saffah750 – 754

Al-Mansur754 – 775

Al-Mahdi775 – 785

Al-Hadi785 – 786

Harun al-Rashid786 – 809

Al-Amin809 – 813

37 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 775 – 785 · 10 years · came to it aged 31

Came to it: inheritedthe child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 785, the year they died

He succeeded his father, al-Mansur.

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