Aluminium-Muqtafi

aluminium-Muqtafi (* 1096; † 1160) were in and thirtieth Kalif of the Abbasiden (1136 - 1160).

Aluminium-Muqtafi was determined 1036 as a son of aluminium-Mustazhir by the Seldschukensultan Masud to the successor of aluminium-Rashid (1135 - 1136). Like already aluminium-Mustarshid (1118 - 1135) it uses the increasing struggles for power of its seldschukischer upper gentlemen for the expansion of its influence. After the death of Masud (1152) and the departure of the seldschukischen garrison made of Bagdad aluminium-Muqtafi could develop an army under exclusion of Turkish mercenaries with the help of the Wesirs Ibn Hubayra. Also Bagdad was again fastened. By the introduction of seldschukischen Militärlehen (iqta) aluminium-Muqtafi could develop also the financial basis of its rule. Soon it exercised material power in the Iraq between TIC-guessed/advised as first Kalif since over 200 years again and Basra .

After 1154 a seldschukischer campaign had failed against Bagdad, the Seldschuken under Sultan Sulayman tried to force 1156 subjecting the Abbasiden again. However the FE storage of Bagdad failed. In addition the diplomacy reached aluminium-Muqtafis that the Atabege of Azerbaijan engaged in Persia, which Sulayman forced to the retreat and which independence of the Abbasiden secured. In the next years it could intersperse also its candidate as Sultan of the Seldschuken. Successor of aluminium-Muqtafi became its son aluminium-Mustanjid (1160 - 1170).