Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
In time
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Connections
- Under the rule of
- al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah II Ahmad ibn al-Mustakfi· al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi· al-Musta'in (Cairo)· al-Mustakfi I· al-Mustakfi bi'llah II Sulayman ibn al-Mutawakkil· al-Mustamsik· al-Mustanjid bi'llah Yusuf ibn al-Mutawakkil· al-Mustansir bi'llah II Ahmad ibn al-Zahir· al-Musta'sim bi'llah Zakariya ibn Ibrahim· al-Mu'tadid bi'llah Abu'l-Fath Abu Bakr ibn al-Mustakfi· al-Mu'tadid bi-llah Dawud ibn al-Mutawakkil· al-Mutawakkil ala Allah II, Abd al-Aziz ibn Ya'qub· al-Mutawakkil ala Allah Muhammad ibn al-Mu'tadid· al-Mutawakkil III· al-Qa'im (Cairo)· al-Wathiq bi-Llah Ibrahim ibn al-Mustamsik· al-Wathiq bi-Llah Umar ibn Ibrahim
- Successor of
- Abbasid Caliphate
People and things also explored
Cairo· al-Mutawakkil ala Allah Muhammad ibn al-Mu'tadid· The introduction of blessings on the Prophet after the adhan· Dropping the Khutba for Two Caliphs and the Empty Pulpits· al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi· al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah II Ahmad ibn al-Mustakfi· al-Musta'in (Cairo)· al-Mustakfi I
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition)
- Al-Suluk li-Ma'rifat Duwal al-Muluk — al-Maqrizi (ed. Sa'id Abd al-Fattah Ashur)
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/polity/abbasid-caliphate-cairo/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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