Al-Mustamsik

al-Mustamsik
المستمسك بالله
16th Caliph of Cairo
(first period)
Reign27 September 1497–1508
Predecessoral-Mutawakkil II
Successoral-Mutawakkil III
(second period)
Reign1516–1517
Predecessoral-Mutawakkil III
Successoral-Mutawakkil III
Born1470s
Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate (now Egypt)
Died1521
Ottoman Empire
Issueal-Mutawakkil III
Fatheral-Mutawakkil II
ReligionIslam

Al-Mustamsik (Arabic: المستمسك بالله), (died 1521) was the sixteenth Abbasid caliph of Cairo under the tutelage of the Mamluk Sultanate. He served as caliph twice, his first term from 1497 to 1508 and his second term from 1516 to 1517, when he abdicated the position to his son, al-Mutawakkil III.




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