Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz: Difference between revisions

After reigning from 5 April 902–13 August 908, the 17th Caliph, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz's cousin [[Al-Muktafi]], died. [[Vizier]] [[al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i]] wished to install Al-Muktafi's thirteen -year-old brother [[Al-Muqtadir]] on the throne, clearly intending to be the power behind the throne himself. Despite his reluctance, Ibn al-Mu'tazz was persuaded by the opposition to assume the caliphate instead, in the hope that he would put an end to the intrigues that had plagued the dynasty for decades. He was crowned on 17 December 908, but was overthrown the same day. He fled the palace in [[Baghdad]] and hid with a friend, but was found on 29 December and strangled.<ref>Charles Greville Tuety (trans.), ''Classical Arabic Poetry: 162 Poems from Imrulkais to Ma‘arri'' (London: KPI, 1985), p. 80.</ref> Almost prophetically, he had once written as a poet: