Ruler · 838 – 862

Al-Muntasir

Lived 838 – 862. Abbasid caliph of Abbasid Caliphate, 861 – 862.

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Lived: 838 – 862; 24 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; Abbasid Caliphate
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Abbasid caliph

Abbasid Caliphate · the 11th of 43 dated reigns · 750 – 1302

7 before

Al-Mu'tasim833 – 842

Al-Wathiq842 – 847

Al-Mutawakkil847 – 861

Al-Muntasir861 – 862

Al-Musta'in862 – 865

Al-Mu'tazz866 – 869

Al-Muhtadi869 – 870

29 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 861 – 862 · 1 year · came to it aged 23

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

Al-Fath was killed trying to protect the Caliph, who was killed next.

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