Al-Mustarchid

Abû Al-Mansûr " Al-Mustarchid Bi-llah" Al-Fadhl Ben Ahmad Al-Mustazhir called Al-Mustarchid . It was born in 1092. It succeeded like twenty-ninth Caliph Abbasside of Baghdad his father Al-Mustazhir in 1118. He died assassinated in 1135. His/her son Ar-Râchid succeeded to him.

Biography

The Abbasid Caliph Al-Mustazhir and the Sultan Seldjoukide Muhammad I {{er}} died the same year. The succession califale did not cause clashes, whereas the Seldjoukides were divided: the new Sultan was Mahmud II. Al-Mustarchid tried to benefit from this circumstance to recover its independence and the control of its troops. Speaker of talent, it gathered behind him the population of Baghdad.

Reign of Mahmud II

Zengi

“Imad AD-DIN Zengi was the son of Aq Sunqur Al-Hajib, governor of Alep under the Sultan Malik Chah I {{er}}. Many risings took place, aiming at reversing it the Sultan. Zengi remained faithful to the Sultan and managed to gain his confidence and its respect.

Dubays

Dubays was Arab tribe of the Banu Mazyad, Dubays was a general without scruple.

In 1123, Dubays with a brother of the Sultan began a raid towards Baghdad. Seldjoukides carried out by Zengi managed one cooking reverse with the army of Dubays. They could thus save the Caliphate of an unquestionable danger. Dubays joined after its defeat with Cross and took part with them in the head office of Alep, in the hope to be able to seize some.

The relations between the Sultan and the Caliph worsened towards 1125. The Caliph sent an army to take Wâsit. Zengi then governor of Bassora came to the meeting from the armies from the Caliph. The troops of the Caliph beaten close to Baghdad returned the weapons. Zengi played a great part to put an end to the conflict and to alleviate the situation. The Caliph was locked up in his palate (1126). Zengi became Atabeg of Mosul in 1127 and of Alep in 1128, unifying the two cities under its personal reign. It founded the dynasty of the Zengides.

Succession of Mahmud II

In 1131, the Sultan Mahmud II is deceased. the governor of the Azerbaïdjan, Ghiyath AD-DIN Farmhouse `ûd Ben Muhammad sought to seize the throne seldjoukide in Iraq with the support of Zenki. A first applicant under Sultan of Iraq was prompter to be made recognize by the Caliph: Dawud (David) a son of Mahmud.

In 1132, it was the turn of Tuğrul II, brother of Farmhouse `ûd Ben Muhammad. A battle burst then between the two brothers and was sealed by the defeat of Zengi which saw an important part of its captured army. It was what pushed it with going to take refuge with Tikrit.

The Turks felt threatened by this victory of the Caliph. They remade their unit around one only applicant Seldjoukide, Mas `ûd, the brother of Mahmud. Finally Mas `ûd arrived to its ends and became Sultan of Iraq. Farmhouse `ûd was presented to Baghdad to obtain its crown of the hands of the Caliph. Al-Mustarchid benefitted from it to sermonize it at the time of the ceremony (January 1133).

Zengi took again the combat in Syria, it put the seat at Damas. This seat was a failure because he was recalled by disorders more to the east. He could not anything make moreover against the crusaders before death of the Caliph.

End of the reign

In June 1135, Al-Mustarchid, is overcome and captured by the new Sultan Seldjoukide Mas `ud, given up by the majority of the emirs it is made prisoner. Farmhouse `ud made it assassinate two months later: one found the naked Caliph under his tent, the cut ears and nose, the transpierced body of a score of stabs. One suspected that it was killed by a member of the sect of the Nizarites. To raise the suspicions which weighed on him, the Sultan deferred the charge on his old Dubays enemy whom it made put at death.

The Al-Mustarchid son, Ar-Râchid succeeded to him as Caliph.

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