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House

Abbasids

Muslim Hijaz dynasty

  • Dated 750 CE – 1517 CE
  • Also called Banu Abbas, Abbasid Dynasty
The members Compare

A family
on the record,
reign by reign.

Documented kin

Overview

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Members · 22

The house, member by member

One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.

What this means

People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.

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

Every member

People whose own records place them in this house.

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Succession

Offices held in the house

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

  • 19 holders
  • 3 gaps
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  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 Has references
  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)

Chronology is not a full explanation

Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.

Religious context · a separate claim

Affiliation

Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.

What this means

Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.

Affiliations recorded on members

An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.

Connections

How Abbasids connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 1

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Succession in office 1

What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Transmission 1

What this means

Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

3 statements on this record

  • 3 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.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged

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.

Junta Granada Informa from Granada, España · CC BY-SA 2.0

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