Al-Wathiq I (), (died after 1341) was the fourth
Abbasid caliph
The Abbasid caliphs were the holders of the Islamic title of caliph who were members of the Abbasid dynasty, a branch of the Quraysh tribe descended from the uncle of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib.
The family came t ...
seated in
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
under the
Mamluk Sultanate
The Mamluk Sultanate ( ar, سلطنة المماليك, translit=Salṭanat al-Mamālīk), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz (western Arabia) from the mid-13th to early 16th ...
between 1340 and 1341.
Life
His grandfather
al-Hakim I
Al-Hakim I (), (c. 1247 – 19 January 1302) (full name: ''Abu al-'Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi 'Ali al-Hasan ibn Abu Bakr'') was the second Abbasid dynasty, Abbasid caliph whose seat was in Cairo and who was subservient to the Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo), M ...
was preoccupied with playing, and he turned to the friendship of the erals, so he changed his mind and entrusted to his son Abu Rabee Suleiman, who spoke about him. Abu Rabee Suleiman took the order and was named as
al-Mustakfi I. Ibn Qalawun, and this led to the split between the two after they were like brothers and catch the Sultan of the Caliph al-Mustakfi and his family and his family to Qus, where he remained until he died in 740 AH and was entrusted before his death to his son Ahmed. As for Sultan
al-Nasir Ahmad ibn Qalawun, the Caliph denied this allegiance to Ibrahim in the name of the believer in God. He did not look at the era of the Muqtafi. When the death came, he regretted what he did. Al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun died in Dhu al-Hijjah in 1344 (741 AH) after he recommended the abdication of the caliph.
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1341 deaths
14th-century Abbasid caliphs
Year of birth unknown
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