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Overview
Al-Mustanjid billah, Yusuf ibn al-Muqtafi, an Abbasid caliph who ruled from 555 to 566 AH. 2
His caliphate
He lifted the taxes in Iraq and was severe on the corrupt. Al-Suyuti relates that he imprisoned a man who used to inform on people, and a man offered ten thousand dinars for him. He said to him: "I will give you ten thousand dinars and show me another like him, so I can imprison him and rid myself of his evil." 2
Ibn al-Najjar, as al-Suyuti quotes him, says he was described as having understanding, judgement and intelligence, had poetry and prose, and knowledge of making astronomical instruments and the astrolabe. 2
At the beginning of his caliphate al-Fa'iz, the ruler of Egypt, died, and al-Adid, the last of the Banu Ubayd caliphs, rose. 2
His death
He died on the eighth of Rabi al-Akhir 566 AH. 2
Connections
- Participated in
- death of the caliph al-Mustanjid — al-Mustaḍīʾ succeeds
People and things also explored
al-Mustadi bi-Amr Allah al-Hasan ibn al-Mustanjid· Baghdad· death of the caliph al-Mustanjid — al-Mustaḍīʾ succeeds
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 678-679
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.678-679
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Mustanjid bi'llah Yusuf ibn al-Muqtafi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-mustanjid-billah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.