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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
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Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
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 tree
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Family 6
- of the house Abbasids Muslim Hijaz dynasty
- parent of (father) Al-Musta'in 12th Abbasid caliph (r. 862–866)
- 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
- sibling of al-Maʾmun Abbasid caliph (786–833, r. 813–833)
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