Al-Mustansir I

Al-Mānsūr al-Mustansir bi-llah
المنصور المستنصر بالله
Khalīfah
Amir al-Mu'minin
Dirham of al-Mustansir
36th Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate
Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad
Reign10 July 1226 – 5 December 1242
Predecessoral-Zahir
Successoral-Musta'sim
Born17 February 1192[1]
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, (now Iraq)
Died5 December 1242 (aged 50)
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Burial
Baghdad
ConsortShahan
Hajir[2]
IssueAl-Musta'sim
Names
Abu Ja`far al-Mansūr al-Mustansir bi-llah ibn az-Zâhir
DynastyAbbasid
Fatheral-Zāhīr
MotherZahra
ReligionSunni Islam
The name of Caliph al-Mustansir appears in this contemporary painting from folio 164v of the Maqamat al-Hariri, 1237 edition (BNF Arabe 5847).[3]

Al-Mustansir Bi'llah (full name:Abū Jā`far al-Mānsūr al-Mustansir bi'Llah bin az-Zâhir[4] surname al-Mustansir),[5] (17 February 1192 – 2 December 1242) was the Caliph of the Abbasid dynasty from 1226 to 1242. He succeeded Caliph Az-Zahir in the year 1226 and was the penultimate caliph to rule from Baghdad.

  1. ^ Ibn Kathir: Albidayah Wa-Nahaya, V. XIII. p. 147
  2. ^ Al-Hawadith al-Jami'a . Ibn al-Fuwaṭi
  3. ^ Contadini, Anna (1 January 2012). A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' Tradition. Brill. p. 155. doi:10.1163/9789004222656_005.
  4. ^ Arabic : abū jʿāfar al-mustanṣir bi-llāh al-manṣūr bīn Muḥammad aẓ-ẓāhir,
    أبو جعفر المسنتصر بالله المنصور بن محمد الظاهر
  5. ^ Arabic : Al-Mustanṣir, المسنتصر بالله