Ruler · 847 – 869

Al-Mu'tazz

Lived 847 – 869. Abbasid caliph of Abbasid Caliphate, 866 – 869.

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Lived: 847 – 869; 22 years
In office: 3 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Abbasid Caliphate
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

Abbasid caliph

Abbasid Caliphate · the 13th of 43 dated reigns · 750 – 1302

9 before

Al-Mutawakkil847 – 861

Al-Mu'tazz866 – 869

27 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 866 – 869 · 3 years · came to it aged 19

Came to it: the nephew or niece of the ruler before, on record
Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

Faced with the assertive Turkish commander Salih ibn Wasif, and unable to find money to satisfy the demands of his troops, he was deposed and died of ill-treatment a few days later, on 16 July 869.

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