Al-Mu’tadid, the Reviver of the Caliphate | 892CE - 902CE | Abbasid Caliphate #09

By the 870s, the Abbasid Caliphate had come out of the Anarchy at Samarra. However, it hadn’t come out as strong as it had been just ten years earlier. The chaos of the Anarchy had torn the Caliphate apart. Much of its former territory had fallen to local powers. There were revolts everywhere. Much of Persia had walked away, Egypt was lost, Arabia too had fallen to tribal warriors. Even Iraq, the heartland of the Abbasid Caliphate, wasn’t fully under their control. While most members of the Abbasid Royal Family were weak and used as puppets by various general and bureaucrats, there were two men who were capable and had the ability to battle their vassals for control. The first was al-Muwaffaq, who had led the military and had actually been the power behind the throne during the reign of Caliph al-Mu’tamid. Al-Muwaffaq was replaced by his son, al-Mu’tadid, who, like his father, was a very capable man. He began repairing the damage that been done to the Caliphate. He turned out to be the last great Abbasid Caliph.

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