Ruler · 815 – 847

Al-Wathiq

Lived 815 – 847; politician. Abbasid caliph of Abbasid Caliphate, 842 – 847.

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Lived: 815 – 847; 32 years
In office: 5 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Abbasid Caliphate
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Abbasid caliph

Abbasid Caliphate · the 9th of 43 dated reigns · 750 – 1302

5 before

Al-Amin809 – 813

Al-Ma'mun813 – 833

Al-Mu'tasim833 – 842

Al-Wathiq842 – 847

Al-Mutawakkil847 – 861

Al-Muntasir861 – 862

Al-Musta'in862 – 865

31 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 842 – 847 · 5 years · came to it aged 30

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 847, the year they died

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