Ruler · 1175 – 1226

Al-Zahir bi-Amr Allah

Lived 1175 – 1226; politician. Abbasid caliph of Abbasid Caliphate, 1225 – 1226.

Wikidata's English label: Az-Zahir.

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

Lived: 1175 – 1226; 51 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; Abbasid Caliphate
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Abbasid caliph

Abbasid Caliphate · the 39th of 43 dated reigns · 750 – 1302

35 before

Al-Mustanjid1160 – 1170

Al-Mustadi1170 – 1180

Al-Nasir1180 – 1225

Al-Zahir bi-Amr Allah1225 – 1226

Al-Mustansir I1226 – 1242

Al-Musta'sim1242 – 1258

Al-Mustansir II1261

1 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 1225 – 1226 · 1 year · came to it aged 50

Came to it: inheritedthe child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1226, the year they died

He succeeded his father al-Nasir in the year 1225 as the thirty-fifth Abbasid Caliph.

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