At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Life in time
Overview
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qahi, Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi Ali al-Hasan, the second of the Abbasid caliphs in Cairo between 661 and 701 AH according to al-Suyuti. 3
Flight and rule
He went into hiding when Baghdad was taken and escaped. He made for Husayn ibn Fallah, amir of the Banu Khafaja, and then the amir Isa ibn Muhanna. He was given the allegiance as caliph, and he took Anah, al-Hadhitha, Hit and al-Anbar, and defeated the Tatars. Then he stayed in Aleppo, and Abd al-Halim ibn Taymiyya and a number of its people gave him the allegiance. 3
His death
He then came to Egypt and held the caliphate until he died on the night of Friday the eighteenth of Jumada al-Ula 701 AH. He was buried near Sayyida Nafisa, the first of them to be buried there. He left the caliphate to his son Sulayman al-Mustakfi. 4
Connections
People and things also explored
al-Mustansir bi'llah II Ahmad ibn al-Zahir· al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars· الشيخ عز الدين بن عبد السلام· Misr (Egypt)· Establishment of the Abbasid caliphate in Cairo· Al-Hakim Forbids the Women of Egypt to Go Out· Al-Mustansir's departure for Iraq and his disappearance
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 725,731
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 528-529, 542
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.725
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.731
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