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Al-Mahdi
أبو عبد الله المهدي ar ابوعبدالله محمد مهدی fa
3rd Abbasid caliph (r. 775–785)
- Child of Al-Mansur and Arwa bint Mansur al-Himyari
- Married to Rayta bint al-Saffah
- Dated 3 August 744 CE – 24 July 785 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
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Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 1
Family
The family of Al-Mahdi
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 18
Family 9
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor. 9 more point at records with no English name, and are not shown.
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child of (child) Al-Mansur second Abbasid Caliph (714-775) - child of (mother) Arwa bint Mansur al-Himyari wife of caliph al-Mansur
- of the house Abbasids Muslim Hijaz dynasty
- sibling of Aliyah bint al-Mansur abbasid princess and sister of al-Mahdi
- sibling of Ja'far al-Ashgar
- sibling of Ja'far ibn Abdallah al-Mansur son of Abbasid caliph al-Mansur
- sibling of Salih al-Miskin Prince of the Abbasid Dynasty
- sibling of Sulayman ibn Abi Ja'far Abbasid prince and political leader (766/7 – 813/5)
- married to Rayta bint al-Saffah 8th-century Arab princess and First wife of Abbasid caliph Al-Mahdi
Sources
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20 statements on this record
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