From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Al-Mustansir II

1st Abbasid Caliph in Mamluk Cairo (died 1261)

Field	Value
name	Abu'l-Qasim Ahmad al-Mustansir
أبو القاسم أحمد المستنصر
succession	1st Caliph of Cairo
reign	13 June 1261 – 28 November 1261
reign-type	Tenure
predecessor	Al-Musta'sim
(as Abbasid caliph in Baghdad)
successor	Al-Hakim I
birth_date	1190s
birth_place	Baghdad, Iraq
death_date	28 November 1261
death_place	Fallujah, Hit, Iraq
father	al-Zahir
mother	Hayat
religion	Sunni Islam

أبو القاسم أحمد المستنصر |reign-type = Tenure (as Abbasid caliph in Baghdad)

Abu'l-Qasim Ahmad al-Mustansir (; c. 1190 – 28 November 1261) was the first Abbasid caliph to rule in Cairo and who was subservient to the Mamluk Sultanate. He reigned from June 1261 to 28 November 1261.

Life

Abu'l-Qasim Ahmad was a member of the Abbasid house who was imprisoned by his nephew the Caliph al-Musta'sim in Baghdad. Following the Sack of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, he escaped to the Arab tribes in the desert, where he hid out for over three years, until after the Mamluks had driven the Mongols from Syria in 1260. After making his way to Cairo, Mamluk Egypt, al-Mustansir was installed as Caliph there by the Mamluk Sultan Baybars I in 1261. He was sent with an army to the east to recover Baghdad, but was killed in a Mongol ambush near al-Anbar (near Falluja in modern Iraq) in 1261, and was succeeded, though not immediately, by his rather distant Abbasid kinsman (and former rival caliph, having been proclaimed by the ruler of Aleppo) Al-Hakim I. Though he was not the direct ancestor of any of them, the line of Cairo caliphs Ahmad al-Mustansir founded lasted until the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, but they were little more than religious figureheads for the Mamluks.

References

Bibliography

Amitai-Preisss, Reuven. Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 56–60, 62.
Glubb, John Bagot. Soldiers of Fortune: The Story of the Mamlukes. New York: Dorset Press, 1988. Pp. 66, 73–75.
Holt, P. M. "al-Mustansir (II)." The Encyclopaedia of Islam. 2nd ed. Vol. VII. P. 729.

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

1262-deaths cairo-era-abbasid-caliphs 13th-century-abbasid-caliphs year-of-birth-unknown monarchs-killed-in-action 13th-century-egyptian-people sons-of-abbasid-caliphs

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Al-Mustansir II — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report