al-Mu'tadid bi-llah Dawud ibn al-Mutawakkil

Al-Mu'tadid billah Dawud ibn al-Mutawakkil, Abu al-Fath, an Abbasid caliph in Cairo between 815 and 845 AH. His mother was a Turkish concubine called Kazal. ¹

He was given the allegiance after his brother al-Musta'in was deposed in 815 AH, in the time of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad. Al-Suyuti describes him as one of the excellent caliphs, noble, intelligent and sharp, with whom scholars and men of merit sat and benefited, and generous and open-handed to an extreme. ¹

He appointed as sultan al-Muzaffar Ahmad ibn al-Mu'ayyad, then Tatar, then al-Salih Muhammad ibn Tatar, then Barsbay, then al-Aziz Yusuf ibn Barsbay. ¹

He died on Sunday, the fourth of Rabi al-Awwal 845 AH, when he was nearly seventy. ¹