Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd (Arabic: أبو إسحاق محمد بن هارون الرشيد; October 796 – 5 January 842), better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaṣim biʾllāh (المعتصم...

"The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" (original Spanish title: "El acercamiento a Almotásim") is a fantasy short story written in 1935 by Argentine writer Jorge...

policies of his father, al-Mu'tasim (r. 833–842), as power continued to rest in the hands of the same officials whom al-Mu'tasim had appointed. The chief...

disaffected wife, Umm al-Fadl, at the instigation of her uncle, al-Mu'tasim. Muhammad al-Jawad was buried next to his grandfather, Musa al-Kazim, the seventh...

بِٱللهِ ٱلْقَذَّافِيّ, also transliterated as Al-Moa'tassem Bellah Al-Qaddafi or Al-Mu'tasim Bi'llah al-Qadhafi; 18 December 1974 – 20 October 2011) was...

capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from 836 to 892. Founded by the caliph al-Mu'tasim, Samarra was briefly a major metropolis that stretched dozens of kilometers...

it continued through the reigns of al-Ma'mun's immediate successors, al-Mu'tasim and al-Wathiq, and four years of al-Mutawakkil who reversed it in 851...

Caliph al-Mutawakkil (r. 847–861). When al-Ma'mun died, his brother, al-Mu'tasim became caliph. Al-Kindi's position would be enhanced under al-Mu'tasim, who...

Al-Mu'tasim is a town in Saladin Governorate, Iraq, near the city of Samarra. It is named for the 9th-century caliph Al-Mu'tasim who founded Samarra as...

Abū Yahya Zakariya al-Musta'sim bi'llah (Arabic: أبو يحيى زكريا المستعصم بالله; died 1389) was the eighth Abbasid caliph of Cairo under the tutelage of...

Abbasid caliphs al-Mu'tasim, al-Wathiq, and al-Mutawakkil, from 836 until his downfall and death by torture in 847. Muhammad ibn al-Zayyat belonged to...

Yahya al-Mu`tasim (Arabic: أبو زكرياء المعتصم يحي بن الناصر; Abū Zakarīyā' Al-Mu`taṣim Yaḥyā ibn An-Nāṣir; died 1236) was an Almohad rival caliph who reigned...

al-Jawad and his family left Iraq to perform Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Ali al-Hadi lived in Medina in this period. Probably summoned by al-Mu'tasim (r...

was a general of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tasim. One of the earliest and most prominent members of al-Mu'tasim's Turkic guard, he rose to become one of...

Caliphs. Near the end of al-Mu'tasim's life there was an uprising in Palestine, but he defeated the rebels. During Al-Mu'tasim's reign, the Tahirid family...

The Mu'tasim Division (Arabic: فرقة المُعتصم, romanized: Firqat al-Mu'tasim), formerly the Mutasim Brigade (Arabic: لواء المعتصم, romanized: Liwa al-Mu'tasim)...

romanized: Muḥammad ibn al-Muʿtaṣim) was an Abbasid prince, the son of Caliph al-Mu'tasim. He was a contemporary of the caliph al-Wathiq and al-Mutawakkil. His...

people, known as Mamluks. This force, created by al-Ma'mun and his brother and successor al-Mu'tasim (833–842), prevented the further disintegration of...

on 31 March 822 to the Abbasid prince Abu Ishaq Muhammad (the future al-Mu'tasim) and a slave concubine from Khwarazm named Shuja. His early life is obscure...

(Arabic: أم المتوكل) was the Umm walad of eighth Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim and mother of al-Mutawakkil. Shuja was the concubine of Abbasid prince Muhammad...

al-Mu'tasim Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Mu'tasim, one of the youngest sons of caliph al-Mu'tasim. Abdallah ibn Muhammad better known as Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz...

Harun's son Abu Ishaq Muhammad (better known as Al-Mu'tasim), his mother was Marida, a concubine. Harun al-Rashid as depicted in the Arabian Nights (One...

AH (834 CE), during the days of the Abbasid Caliphate of Al-Mu'tasim. However, Al-Mu'tasim defeated and arrested him and carried him to Baghdad, detaining...

English using the same title as in the original language. "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" originally appeared published in A History of Eternity (Historia de...

(future al-Musta'in) was the son of Abbasid prince Muhammad ibn al-Mu'tasim and his mother was a concubine from province of Sicily called Makhariq. Al-Musta'in...

(Jats) between 810 and 835 in Iraq during the reign of al-Ma'mun and continued to the era of al-Mu'tasim. The Rebellion began from the Zutt tribe of Jats,...

Ishaq was acclaimed as caliph on 9 August, with the Laqab of al-Mu'tasim (in full al-Muʿtaṣim bi’llāh, "he who seeks refuge in God"). It is impossible to...

prince of Oshrusana. He played a leading role in the campaigns of Caliph al-Mu'tasim, and was responsible for the suppression of the rebellion of Babak Khorramdin...

Melitene, Samosata and Zapetra by vengeful Byzantine troops in 837. Al-Mu'tasim however gained the upper hand with his 838 victories at Dazimon, Ancyra...

prominent enforcer of caliphal policy during the reigns of al-Ma'mun, al-Mu'tasim, al-Wathiq, and al-Mutawakkil. In 822 he was appointed as chief of security...