Ruler · 908 – 968

Al-Muttaqi

Lived 908 – 968. Abbasid caliph of Abbasid Caliphate, 940 – 944.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 908 – 968; 60 years
In office: 4 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Abbasid Caliphate
Left it: killed; the ruler's own article

Abbasid caliph

Abbasid Caliphate · the 21st of 43 dated reigns · 750 – 1302

17 before

Al-Muttaqi940 – 944

19 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 940 – 944 · 4 years · came to it aged 32

Came to it: the sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killedread from the ruler's own article

the article also: deposed

He did not long enjoy it, however, as in early 942 he was assassinated at the orders of the Hamdanid prince Nasir al-Dawla, who soon succeeded him as amir al-umara.

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