al-Qa'im (Cairo)
al-Qa'im (Cairo), the caliph of the Abbasid of Cairo caliphate, ruling 1451–1455 CE.
Reign · Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo · no. 13 in the chain · 1451–1455 CE
Ruled the caliphate
Events of the reign
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Death of al-Suyuti’s father, 855/1451
Al-Suyuti’s father died prematurely in 855/1451, when the boy was five years and seven months old and had already reached Surat al-Tahrim in the Qur’an; his father had entrusted his guardianship to a group of scholars, among them al-Kamal ibn al-Humam.
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Battle of Kruševac
Draft card for the Battle of Kruševac in 1454, the Ottoman encounter with Serbs and Hungarians in Serbia; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Leskovac
Draft card for the Battle of Leskovac in 1454, the Ottoman victory over Hunyadi's army in Serbia; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Los Alporchones
Draft card for the Battle of Los Alporchones in 1452 near Lorca between Castilians and Nasrids; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Conquest of Constantinople in 857 AH
Mehmed Fatih took Constantinople the Great after the severest fifty-day siege — his ships running over land — opening Istanbul on Wednesday 20 Jumada II 857 and praying the Friday prayer in Hagia Sophia, the dome that 'rivals the sky's dome and emulates the pyramids in strength'. The Encyclopaedia of Islam adds that Mehmed II's troops entered through the breach in the walls at dawn on 20 Jumada I 857/29 May 1453 and the fighting ended towards mid-afternoon; the sultan then declared Hagia Sophia the Great Mosque and Istanbul his capital, after earlier Umayyad expeditions against the city.
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The Great Mecca Flood of 859
859: a great torrent struck Mecca, entering the Haram until it nearly reached the Black Stone.
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Mehmed II prepares the Constantinople siege from Edirne
Mehmed II returned to Edirne when he decided to besiege Constantinople; the siege plans were worked out in the city and the great guns tested in its environs, while the road between Edirne and Constantinople was levelled so the giant cannon could be hauled — they moved from Edirne to the vicinity of Constantinople in two months.
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Siege of Caffa (1454)
Draft card for Siege of Caffa (1454); its sources are not yet checked on the page.