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Al-Mutawakkil
جعفر المتوكل على الله ar ابوالفضل جعفر متوکل fa
10th Abbasid caliph (822–861, r. 847–861)
- Child of Al-Mu'tasim and Shuja al-Khwarazmi
- Dated March 822 CE – 11 December 861 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
- 10 August 847 CE – 10 December 861 CE Abbasid caliph Number 10 in the sequence Succeeded Al-Mu'tasim · Succeeded by Al-Muntasir
Family
The family of Al-Mutawakkil
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 · 14
Family 14
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 marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Al-Mu'tasim 8th Abbasid Caliph. (r. 833–842) - child of (mother) Shuja al-Khwarazmi mother of Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil
- of the house Abbasids Muslim Hijaz dynasty
- parent of (child) Al-Mu'ayyad Abbasid prince
- parent of (father) Al-Mu'tamid Abbasid Caliph from 870 to 892
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parent of (father) Al-Mu'tazz Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad from 866 to 869 -
parent of (father) Al-Muntasir 11th Abbasid caliph from 861 to 862 - parent of (child) Al-Muwaffaq Abbasid prince and military leader (843–891)
- partner of Bunān Abbasid concubine and slave singer
- partner of Faḍl al-Yamamiya Iraqi poet during abbasid era
- partner of Mahbuba (singer) fl. 9th c.-
- partner of Qabiha slave concubine of Caliph Al-Mutawakkil
- sibling of Al-Musta'in 12th Abbasid caliph (r. 862–866)
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sibling of Al-Wathiq 9th Abbasid Caliph (r. 812–847)
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
16 statements on this record
- 16 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 3 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
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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