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Muhammad ibn al-Qa'im

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Muhammad ibn al-Qa'im
محمد ابن القائم
Heir apparent of the Abbasid Caliphate
Tenure1039–40 – 1056
Born1039–40[1]
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Died1056[1][2]
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Burial
Baghdad
SpouseUrjuwuan
IssueAl-Muqtadi
Names
Muhammad ibn al-Qa'im ibn Ahmad al-Qadir
Era name and dates
Later Abbasid era: 11th century
DynastyAbbasid
FatherAl-Qa'im
ReligionSunni Islam

Muhammad ibn al-Qa'im (Arabic: محمد ابن القائم) also known as Muhammad Dhakirat was an Abbasid prince, son of Abbasid caliph Al-Qa'im. He was designated as heir apparent by his father in the mid-eleventh century CE but died before his father.

Biography

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Muhammad was the son of Abbasid caliph Al-Qa'im who reigned from 1031 to 1075 and the grandson of caliph al-Qadir. His full name was Muhammad ibn Abu Ja'far al-Qa'im ibn Ahmad al-Qadir. He was known in Baghdad as Muhammad Dhakirat.

In 1030, his grandfather, al-Qadir named his son Abu Ja'far al-Qa'im, as his heir, a decision taken completely independently of the Buyīd emirs.[3][4] During the first half of al-Qa'im's long reign, hardly a day passed in the capital without turmoil. Frequently the city was left without a ruler; the Buyīd emir was often forced to flee the capital. While the Seljuk influence grew, Dawud Chaghri Beg married his daughter, Khadija Arslan Khatun,[5] to al-Qa'im in 1056.[6]

His father, al-Qa'im nominated him heir apparent in mid eleventh century however he died during his father's reign and his father then nominated his son, Abdallāh (future Al-Muqtadi) as next Heir-apparent. In 1075 al-Muqtadi succeeded his grandfather, when al-Qa'im died at the age of 73–74. Al-Muqtadi was born to Muhammad Dhakirat, the son of caliph al-Qa'im, and an Armenian slave girl[7] called Urjuwuan.

References

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  1. ^ a b Massignon, L.; Mason, H. (2019). The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 2: The Survival of Al-Hallaj. Bollingen Series. Princeton University Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-691-65721-9.
  2. ^ Richards, D.S. (2014). The Annals of the Saljuq Turks: Selections from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh of Ibn al-Athir. Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey. Taylor & Francis. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-317-83255-3.
  3. ^ Sourdel 1978, p. 379.
  4. ^ Busse 2004, p. 72.
  5. ^ Bosworth, C. E. (1968). "The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World". In Boyle, J. A. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press. p. 48.
  6. ^ Bosworth, C. E. (1970). "Dailamīs in Central Iran: The Kākūyids of Jibāl and Yazd". Iran. 8 (1): 73–95 [p. 86]. doi:10.2307/4299634. JSTOR 4299634.
  7. ^ Bennison, Amira K. (2009) The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire. Princeton: Yale University Press, p. 47. ISBN 0300167989

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