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- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Life in time
Al-Muʿtadid bi-Llah Dawud, the Abbasid
Commander of the Faithful al-Muʿtadid bi-Llah Abu al-Fath Dawud ibn al-Mutawakkil ʿala Llah, caliph of the Abbasids in Cairo. Al-Muʾayyad Shaykh appointed him to the caliphate in place of his brother al-Mustaʿin bi-Llah, when he deposed him. His caliphate lasted twenty-eight years and two months. He died on Sunday, the fourth of Rabiʿ I 845 AH, at nearly ninety years of age. After him his full brother al-Mustakfi bi-Llah Abu al-Rabi' Sulayman was installed, by the appointment he had made 1.
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 255
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