Muhammad ibn al-Qa'im
محمد ابن القائم
Heir apparent of the Abbasid Caliphate
Tenure1039–40 – 1056
Born1039–40[1]
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Died1056[1][2]
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Burial
Baghdad
SpouseUrjuwuan
IssueAl-Muqtadi
Names
Muhammad ibn al-Qa'im ibn Ahmad al-Qadir
Era name and dates
Later Abbasid era: 11th century
DynastyAbbasid
FatherAl-Qa'im
ReligionSunni 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

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

  1. 1 2 Massignon, L.; Mason, H. (2019). The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 2: The Survival of Al-Hallaj. Bollingen Series. Princeton University Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-691-65721-9.
  2. Richards, D.S. (2014). The Annals of the Saljuq Turks: Selections from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh of Ibn al-Athir. Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey. Taylor & Francis. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-317-83255-3.
  3. Sourdel 1978, p. 379.
  4. Busse 2004, p. 72.
  5. Bosworth, C. E. (1968). "The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World". In Boyle, J. A. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press. p. 48.
  6. Bosworth, C. E. (1970). "Dailamīs in Central Iran: The Kākūyids of Jibāl and Yazd". Iran. 8 (1): 73–95 [p. 86]. doi:10.2307/4299634. JSTOR 4299634.
  7. Bennison, Amira K. (2009) The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire. Princeton: Yale University Press, p. 47. ISBN 0300167989

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