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POLITICIAN

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 565,395 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Al-Mu'tasim is the 1,578th most popular politician (down from 1,373rd in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 34th in 2019) and the 22nd 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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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Al-Mu'tasim ranks 1,578 out of 15,577Before him are James II of Aragon, Victoria of Baden, Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, Abel, King of Denmark, Ptolemy VIII Physcon, and Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. After him are Carloman, Xerxes II of Persia, Joseph I of Portugal, Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sergey Shoygu, and Frederick Augustus I of Saxony.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 796, Al-Mu'tasim ranks 1After him are Lü Dongbin, Dhul-Nun al-Misri, and Lambert I of Nantes. Among people deceased in 842, Al-Mu'tasim ranks 2Before 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 44 out of 338Before him are Antiochus I Soter (-324), Suleyman Shah (1178), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1971), Al-Ash'ari (873), Enheduanna (-2300), and Shalmaneser III (-900). After him are Faisal II of Iraq (1935), Šuppiluliuma I (-1344), Al-Jahiz (775), Al-Musta'sim (1213), Ibn Hisham (701), and Naram-Sin of Akkad (-2254).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Al-Mu'tasim ranks 22Before him are Jalal Talabani (1933), Ur-Nammu (-2200), Möngke Khan (1209), Antiochus I Soter (-324), Suleyman Shah (1178), and Shalmaneser III (-900). After him are Faisal II of Iraq (1935), Šuppiluliuma I (-1344), Al-Musta'sim (1213), Naram-Sin of Akkad (-2254), Tiglath-Pileser I (-1200), and Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914).