Ruler · 904 – 949

Al-Mustakfi

Lived 904 – 949; politician. Abbasid caliph of Abbasid Caliphate, 944 – 946.

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Lived: 904 – 949; 45 years
In office: 2 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Abbasid Caliphate
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

Abbasid caliph

Abbasid Caliphate · the 22nd of 43 dated reigns · 750 – 1302

18 before

Al-Mustakfi944 – 946

18 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 944 – 946 · 2 years · came to it aged 40

Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

the article also: deposed

He tried to exploit the rivalries of the regional warlords to recover the independence and authority of his office, but his attempts failed, and he was deposed and blinded by the amīr al-umarāʾ Tuzun in September 944.

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