Al-Mu'tadid I

al-Mu'tadid I المعتضد الأول
6th Caliph of Cairo
Reign	1352–1362
Predecessor	al-Hakim II
Successor	al-Mutawakkil I
Born	unknown date Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate now Egypt
Died	1362 Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate now Egypt
Issue	al-Mutawakkil I
Father	al-Mustakfi I
Religion	Sunni Islam

Al-Mu'tadid I (Arabic: أبو الفتح أبو بكر المعتضد بالله, Abū l-Fatḥ Abū Bakr al-Muʿtaḍid bi-Llāh; died 1362) was the sixth Abbasid caliph of Cairo for the Mamluk Sultanate between 1352 and 1362.

Life

Al-Mu'tadid I took the office after the death of his brother in the year 1352 CE. He remained in the office for ten years. He died in the year of 1362. He was a lover of the People of science. Under his reign Sultan Salah al-Din Salih was deposed in 755 AH and Nasser Hassan returned. He remained in the Sultanate for seven years and was killed in 762 AH. The Sultanate gave his nephew, Mansour ibn Muhammad al-Muzaffar Amir Haj, only two years to disembark.

References

• "Biography of Al-Mu'tadid I" (in Arabic). Islampedia.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-11.

Bibliography

• Garcin, Jean-Claude (1967). "Histoire, opposition, politique et piétisme traditionaliste dans le Ḥusn al Muḥādarat de Suyûti" [History, opposition, politics and traditionalistic pietism in Suyuti's Ḥusn al Muḥādarat] (PDF). Annales Islamologiques (in French). 7. Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale: 33–90. doi:10.3406/anisl.1967.909. S2CID 259055409. Archived from the original (PDF, 14.62 MB) on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
• Holt, P. M. (1984). "Some Observations on the 'Abbāsid Caliphate of Cairo". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 47 (3). University of London: 501–507. doi:10.1017/s0041977x00113710. JSTOR 618882. S2CID 161092185.