Muhammad ibn al-Qa'im
| Muhammad ibn al-Qa'im محمد ابن القائم | |||||||||
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| Heir apparent of the Abbasid Caliphate | |||||||||
| Tenure | 1039–40 – 1056 | ||||||||
| Born | 1039–40[1] Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate | ||||||||
| Died | 1056[1][2] Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate | ||||||||
| Burial | Baghdad | ||||||||
| Spouse | Urjuwuan | ||||||||
| Issue | Al-Muqtadi | ||||||||
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| Dynasty | Abbasid | ||||||||
| Father | Al-Qa'im | ||||||||
| Religion | Sunni 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
[edit | edit source]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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- ^ Busse 2004, p. 72.
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Sources
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- This text is adapted from William Muir's public domain, The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall.