Key facts
- Reign
- 29 August 1135 – 17 August 1136
- Predecessor
- Al-Mustarshid
- Successor
- Al-Muqtafi
- Born
- 1109, Baghdad , Iraq
- Died
- 6 June 1138 (aged 29), Isfahan , Iran
- Burial
- Al-Rashid Mausoleum
- Issue
- Ja'far
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Place of birth
- Baghdad
- Place of death
- Isfahan
- Father
- Al-Mustarshid
- Occupation
- caliph
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Religion
- Islam
- Family
- Abbasids
- Image
- منصور الراشد بالله.jpg
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- Commons category
- Al-Rashid Billah
- date of birth
- 1109-01-01
- date of death
- 1138-06-06
- manner of death
- homicide
- ethnic group
- Arabs
- place of burial
- Al-Rashid Mausoleum
- cause of death
- stab wound
- relative
- al-Hakim I
- name in native language
- منصور الراشد بالله
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Encyclopedic overview
DynastyAbbasid FatherAl-Mustarshid MotherKhushf ReligionSunni Islam
Abu Ja'far al-Mansur ibn al-Faḍl al-Mustarshid bi'llah (Arabic: أبو جعفر المنصور بن الفضل المسترشد بالله; 1109 – 6 June 1138) usually known by his regnal name Al-Rashid bi'llah (Arabic: الراشد بالله) was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 1135 to 1136. He succeeded his father al-Mustarshid in the year 1135. He ruled for just one year from 1135 up to his deposition on 17 August 1136 when the populace of Baghdad rose in revolt against him.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al-Rashid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.