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Abbasids

Muslim Hijaz dynasty

  • Dated 750 CE – 1517 CE
  • Also called Banu Abbas, Abbasid Dynasty
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Overview

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The house, member by member

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Muhammad ibn Ali al-Abbasi 671 CE – 744 CE

3 children in the house

  1. Ibrahim al-Imam 701 CE – 749 CE
  2. Al-Mansur 713 CE – 775 CE 1 child in the house
  3. As-Saffah 722 CE – 754 CE
One family in Abbasids: members whose records name this parent, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

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Offices held in the house

The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.

  • 19 holders
  • 3 gaps
  1. 1st 25 January 750 CE – 10 June 754 CE As-Saffah First Abbasid
  2. 2nd 10 June 754 CE – 6 October 775 CE Al-Mansur second Abbasid Caliph (714-775)
  3. 3rd 6 October 775 CE – 24 July 785 CE Al-Mahdi 3rd Abbasid caliph (r. 775–785)

  4. Gap about 28 years before the next in this house

    7th 27 September 813 CE – 7 August 833 CE al-Maʾmun Abbasid caliph (786–833, r. 813–833)
  5. 8th 9 August 833 CE – 5 January 842 CE Al-Mu'tasim 8th Abbasid Caliph. (r. 833–842)
  6. 9th 5 January 842 CE – 10 August 847 CE Al-Wathiq 9th Abbasid Caliph (r. 812–847)
  7. 10th 10 August 847 CE – 10 December 861 CE Al-Mutawakkil 10th Abbasid caliph (822–861, r. 847–861)
  8. 11th 12 December 861 CE – 7 June 862 CE Al-Muntasir 11th Abbasid caliph from 861 to 862
  9. 12th 8 June 862 CE – 5 February 865 CE Al-Musta'in 12th Abbasid caliph (r. 862–866)
  10. 13th 17 October 866 CE – 9 July 869 CE Al-Mu'tazz Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad from 866 to 869
  11. 15th 16 June 870 CE – 14 October 892 CE Al-Mu'tamid Abbasid Caliph from 870 to 892
  12. 16th 15 October 892 CE – 5 April 902 CE Al-Mu'tadid 16th Abbasid Caliph from 892 to 902
  13. 17th 5 April 902 CE – 13 August 908 CE Al-Muktafi The seventeenth Abbasid Caliph
  14. 18th 13 August 908 CE – 1 November 932 CE Al-Muqtadir The eighteenth Abbasid Caliph
  15. 19th 31 October 932 CE – 19 April 934 CE Al-Qahir The nineteenth Abbasid Caliph

  16. Gap about 10 years before the next in this house

    22nd 26 August 944 CE – 28 January 946 CE Al-Mustakfi The twenty-second Abbasid caliph
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  1. Gap about 224 years before the next in this house

    33rd 18 December 1170 CE – 27 March 1180 CE Al-Mustadi Mûstadhî (Abbasi) (1142-1180)
  2. 34th 28 March 1180 CE – 5 October 1225 CE Al-Nasir Abbasid caliph (1158-1225)
  3. 35th 5 October 1225 CE – 10 July 1226 CE Az-Zahir Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad (r. 1225–1226)

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