Abu'l-Qāsim Abdallāh ibn Muḥammad al-Khāqānī () was a son of the

Abbasid The Abbasid Caliphate ( or ; ar, الْخِلَافَةُ الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, ') was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abdul-Muttalib ...

vizier A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was a ...

Muhammad ibn Ubayd Allah al-Khaqani Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Khāqānī () was a senior official of the Abbasid Caliphate, who served as vizier from 912 to 913. He was the son of the distinguished Ubayd Allah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan, who served twice as vizier, und ...

, under whose vizierate in 912–913 he actually ran the government, before becoming vizier himself in 924–925.

Life

He was the son of

, vizier from 912 to 913, and grandson of

Ubayd Allah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan Abū al-Ḥasan ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khāqān ( ar, أبو الحسن عبيد الله بن يحيى بن خاقان) was an Abbasid official who served twice as vizier, under caliphs al-Mutawakkil and al-Mu'tamid. Life Ubayd Allah's ...

, vizier from 851 to 861 and 870 to 877. He served as a secretary under his father during the latter's vizierate, along with his brother Abd al-Wahid. During is father's vizierate, Abdallah supervised the actual administration, while his father was busy trying to secure his own position at court. Nevertheless, the contemporary historians are unanimous in describing Abdallah and his father as both indolent and incompetent. So haphazard was the governance during this time that the historian

Miskawayh Ibn Miskawayh ( fa, مُسْکُـوْيَه Muskūyah, 932–1030), full name Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Miskawayh was a Persian chancery official of the Buyid era, and philosopher and historian from Parandak, Iran. As ...

relates that seven governors were appointed to the same district within 20 days, and they all met by chance in the same inn on their way to take up their post. Despite the failure of this first tenure, in June 924 Abdallah became vizier himself, in succession to

Ali ibn al-Furat Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Musa ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Furat () (855 – 18 July 924) was a senior official of the Abbasid Caliphate who served three times as vizier under Caliph al-Muqtadir. Ali emerged into prominence as an able fiscal admin ...

, who was disgraced and executed following the

Qarmatian The Qarmatians ( ar, قرامطة, Qarāmiṭa; ) were a militant Isma'ili Shia movement centred in al-Hasa in Eastern Arabia, where they established a religious-utopian socialist state in 899 CE. Its members were part of a movement that adhe ...

sack of Basra and the destruction of the

Hajj The Hajj (; ar, حَجّ '; sometimes also spelled Hadj, Hadji or Haj in English) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried ...

caravan during the previous year. He was unable to deal with the challenges facing the Abbasid government at the time, and was dismissed in November 925, on the insistence of the commander-in-chief

Mu'nis al-Muzaffar Abū'l-Ḥasan Mu'nis al-Qushuri ( ar, ابوالحسن مؤنس ابوالحسن; 845/6–933), also commonly known by the surnames al-Muẓaffar (; ) and al-Khadim (; 'the Eunuch'), was the commander-in-chief of the Abbasid army from 908 to his ...

, who at the time was the virtual regent of the Caliphate. As was customary, he was imprisoned and forced to pay a fine. Released, he died in 926/7.

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