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Al-Mu'tasim

796 - 842

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Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd (Arabic: أبو إسحاق محمد بن هارون الرشيد; October 796 – 5 January 842), better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaṣim biʾllāh (المعتصم بالله, lit. 'He who seeks refuge in God'), was the eighth Abbasid caliph, ruling from 833 until his death in 842. A younger son of Caliph Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809), he rose to prominence through his formation of a private army composed predominantly of Turkic slave-soldiers (ghilmān, sing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Mu'tasim has received more than 617,470 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Al-Mu'tasim is the 1,171st most popular politician (up from 1,574th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 43rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Iraqi Politician.

Al-mu'tasim was the second Abbasid caliph, and is most famous for his military campaigns against the Byzantine Empire.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Al-Mu'tasim ranks 1,171 out of 19,576. Before him are Nikolai Yezhov, Mohamed Naguib, Baldwin III of Jerusalem, Ahmed Ben Bella, Sandra Mason, and Michael VII Doukas. After him are Basil I, Alauddin Khalji, Frederick II of Denmark, Alfredo Stroessner, Hua Guofeng, and Pauline Bonaparte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 796, Al-Mu'tasim ranks 1. After him are Dhul-Nun al-Misri, Lü Dongbin, and Lambert I of Nantes. Among people deceased in 842, Al-Mu'tasim ranks 2. Before him is Theophilos. After him are Alfonso II of Asturias, Emperor Saga, Langdarma, and Liu Yuxi.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Al-Mu'tasim ranks 34 out of 384. Before him are Jalal Talabani (1933), Ismail al-Jazari (1136), Belshazzar (-600), Al-Ash'ari (873), Gudea (-2200), and Möngke Khan (1209). After him are Ahmad ibn Fadlan (900), Enheduanna (-2300), Eber (-2038), Antiochus I Soter (-324), Ur-Nammu (-2200), and Al-Musta'sim (1213).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Al-Mu'tasim ranks 17. Before him are Sargon II (-750), Khosrow II (570), Al-Ma'mun (786), Jalal Talabani (1933), Gudea (-2200), and Möngke Khan (1209). After him are Antiochus I Soter (-324), Ur-Nammu (-2200), Al-Musta'sim (1213), Suleyman Shah (1178), Faisal II of Iraq (1935), and Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914).

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