Al-Mustamsik Explained

al-Mustamsik
المستمسك بالله
Succession:16th Caliph of Cairo
(first period)
Reign:27 September 1497–1508
Predecessor:al-Mutawakkil II
Successor:al-Mutawakkil III
Succession1:(second period)
Reign1:1516–1517
Predecessor1:al-Mutawakkil III
Successor1:al-Mutawakkil III
Birth Date:1470s
Birth Place:Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate (now Egypt)
Death Date:1521
Death Place:Ottoman Empire
Religion:Islam
Issue:al-Mutawakkil III

Al-Mustamsik (; died 1521) was the sixteenth and penultimate Abbasid caliph of Cairo under the tutelage of the Mamluk Sultanate. He served as caliph twice, his first term from 1497 to 1508 and his second term from 1516 to 1517, when he abdicated the position to his son, al-Mutawakkil III.

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