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Al-Mu'tasim
المعتصم بالله ar ابواسحاق محمد معتصم fa
8th Abbasid Caliph. (r. 833–842)
- Dated 796 CE – 5 January 842 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
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
- 9 August 833 CE – 5 January 842 CE Abbasid caliph Number 8 in the sequence Succeeded al-Maʾmun · Succeeded by Al-Wathiq
Family
The family of Al-Mu'tasim
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 · 13
Family 6
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor. 7 more point at records with no English name, and are not shown.
- of the house Abbasids Muslim Hijaz dynasty
- parent of (father) Al-Musta'in 12th Abbasid caliph (r. 862–866)
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parent of (father) Al-Mutawakkil 10th Abbasid caliph (822–861, r. 847–861) -
parent of (father) Al-Wathiq 9th Abbasid Caliph (r. 812–847) - partner of Shuja al-Khwarazmi mother of Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil
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sibling of al-Maʾmun Abbasid caliph (786–833, r. 813–833)
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
15 statements on this record
- 15 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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