Al-Muktafi
Sign in to save'''Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Muktafī bi'Llāh (; 877/78 – 13 August 908), better known by his regnal name al-Muktafī bi-Llāh''' (), was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 902 to 908. More liberal and sedentary than his militaristic father al-Mu'tadid, al-Muktafi essentially continued his policies, although most of the actual conduct of government was left to his viziers and officials. His reign saw the defeat of the Qarmatians of the Syrian Desert, and the reincorporation of Egypt and the parts of Syria ruled by the Tulunid dynasty. The war
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- 1096
- Died
- 1160
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- 1
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Key facts
- Royalty.type
- caliph
- Royalty.name
- al-Muktafi
- Royalty.title
- Khalifah Amir al-Mu'minin
- Royalty.image
- Dinar of al-Muktafi, AH 292.jpg
- Royalty.image_size
- 300px
- Royalty.alt
- Photo of the obverse and reverse sides of a gold coin with Arabic inscriptions
- Royalty.caption
- Gold dinar of al-Muktafi, minted at Baghdad in 904/5
- Royalty.succession
- 17th Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate
- Royalty.reign
- 5 April 902 – 13 August 908
- Royalty.predecessor1
- al-Mu'tadid
- Royalty.full name
- Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Muktafī bi'Llāh
- Royalty.house
- Abbasid
Key dates
- Born
- 877
- Died
- 908
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ali
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Place of birth
- Baghdad
- Place of death
- Baghdad
- Child
- Al-Mustakfi
- Father
- Al-Mu'tadid
- Sibling
- Al-Qahir
- Occupation
- caliph
Article
13 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Caliphate
- Character and government
- Role of the vizier al-Qasim
- Campaigns
- Relations with the eastern warlords
- Qarmatian uprisings
- Recovery of Tulunid Syria and Egypt
- Byzantine front
- Death and legacy
- Footnotes
- References
- Sources
'''Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Muktafī bi'Llāh (; 877/78 – 13 August 908), better known by his regnal name al-Muktafī bi-Llāh''' (), was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 902 to 908. More liberal and sedentary than his militaristic father al-Mu'tadid, al-Muktafi essentially continued his policies, although most of the actual conduct of government was left to his viziers and officials. His reign saw the defeat of the Qarmatians of the Syrian Desert, and the reincorporation of Egypt and the parts of Syria ruled by the Tulunid dynasty. The war with the Byzantine Empire continued with alternating success, although the Arabs scored a major victory in the Sack of Thessalonica in 904. His death in 908 opened the way for the installation of a weak ruler, al-Muqtadir, by the palace bureaucracy, and began the terminal decline of the Abbasid Caliphate that ended in 946 with the caliphs becoming puppet rulers under the Buyid dynasty.
==Early life== Ali ibn Ahmad was born in 877/8, the son of Ahmad ibn Talha, the future caliph al-Mu'tadid () by a Turkish slave-girl, named Čiček ("flower", Jijak in Arabic). He was the first caliph named after caliph Ali.