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427:. Al-Mustazhir married her in Isfahan in 1108–9. She later came to Baghdad and took up residence in the Caliphal Palace. On 3 February 1112, she gave birth to Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, who died of smallpox in October 1114, and was buried in the mausoleum of al-Muqtadir in Rusafah Cemetery, beside his uncle Ja'far, son of the caliph al-Muqtadi. Upon the death of Al-Mustazhir, Ismah returned to Isfahan, where she died, and was buried within the law college that she had founded there on Barracks Market Street. She died in 1141–42. One of his concubines was Lubanah. She was from Baghdad, and was the mother of the future Caliph 354: 321:, and the two collaborated to remove him from office without input from Barkyaruq. In another, Barkyaruq himself fired Amid ad-Dawla and fined him "an enormous sum" for misappropriating government funds before imprisoning him. In any case, Amid ad-Dawla died in prison shortly after, in 1100. 385:'s heavenly flight. But whatever the success elsewhere, the mission failed in the eastern provinces, which were occupied with their own troubles, and moreover cared little for the Holy Land, dominated as it then was by the 317:. There are different accounts for Amid ad-Dawla's downfall – in one, Mu'ayyad al-Mulk, who had succeeded his father Nizam al-Mulk as Seljuk vizier, had offered the Abbasid vizierate to 377:
was captured by the crusaders and its inhabitants were massacred. Preachers travelled throughout the caliphate proclaiming the tragedy and rousing men to recover from infidel hands
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After Amid ad-Dawla's downfall, his brother al-Kafi served as vizier to the Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir from 1102/3 until 1106/7 and then again from 1108/9 until 1113/4.
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When his father died on 3 February 1094 at the age of 37 – 38. Al-Mustazhir succeeded him. At the time of accession to the throne, he was just sixteen years old.
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The Chronicle of Ibn Al-Athir for the Crusading Period from Al-Kamil Fi'L-Ta'Rikh.: The Years 491-541/1097-1146 the Coming of the Franks and the Muslim Response
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During Al-Mustazhir's twenty-four year incumbency he was politically irrelevant, despite the civil strife at home and the appearance of the
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Amid ad-Dawla would remain Abbasid vizier until 1099 or 1100, when he was removed from office and imprisoned by the Seljuk sultan
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faith. Crowds of exiles, seeking refuge in Baghdad, joined there with the populace in crying out for war against the
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as the Caliph. The main and important events during his reign are; appearance of the
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The Chronicle of Ibn Al-Athīr for the Crusading Period from Al-Kāmil Fīʼl-taʼrīkh
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Al-Mustazhir died in the year 1118 at the age of 40. He was succeeded by his son
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to organize several expeditions to reconquer lands from the Crusaders.
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indicates ephemeral caliphs recognized in the city of Baghdad only
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al-Sāʿī, Ibn; Toorawa, Shawkat M.; Bray, Julia (2017).
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Index

Khalīfah
Amir al-Mu'minin
Caliph
Abbasid Caliphate
Abbasid Caliph
Baghdad
Al-Muqtadi
Al-Mustarshid
Baghdad
Ismah Khatun
Issue
Al-Mustarshid
Al-Muqtafi
Dynasty
Abbasid
Al-Muqtadi
Sunni Islam
Arabic
regnal name
Arabic
Abbasid
Caliph
Baghdad
al-Muqtadi
First Crusade
Syria
Mawdud
Al-Muqtadi
5th Islamic century
kunya

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