Al-Mustansir I

Names
	Abu Ja`far Mansûr al-Mustansir bi-llah ibn az-Zâhir

Mansûr al-Mustansir bi-llah
المنصور المستنصر بالله
Mansûr al-Mustansir bi-llah ; المنصور المستنصر بالله
Khalīfah; Amir al-Mu'minin
	Dirham of al-Mustansir
36th Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate ; Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad
Reign	10 July 1226 – 5 December 1242
Predecessor	al-Zahir
Successor	al-Musta'sim
Born	17 February 1192 ; Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, (now Iraq)
Died	5 December 1242 (aged 50); Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Burial	Baghdad
Consort	Shahan; Hajir
Issue	Al-Musta'sim
Names
Names
	Abu Ja`far Mansûr al-Mustansir bi-llah ibn az-Zâhir
Dynasty	Abbasid
Father	al-Zahir
Mother	Zahra
Religion	Sunni Islam

Al-Mustansir Bi'llah (full name:Abû Ja`far al-Mustansir bi-llah al-Mansûr bin az-Zâhir^[4] surname al-Mustansir),^[5] (17 February 1192 – 2 December 1242) was the Caliph of the Abbasid dynasty from 1226 to 1242. He succeeded Caliph Az-Zahir in the year 1226 and was the penultimate caliph to rule from Baghdad.

^ Ibn Kathir: Albidayah Wa-Nahaya, V. XIII. p. 147
^ Al-Hawadith al-Jami'a . Ibn al-Fuwaṭi
^ Contadini, Anna (1 January 2012). A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' Tradition. Brill. p. 155. doi:10.1163/9789004222656_005.
^ Arabic : abū jaʿfar al-mustanṣir bi-llāh al-manṣūr ben aẓ-ẓāhir,
أبو جعفر المسنتصر بالله المنصور بن محمد الظاهر
^ Arabic : Al-Mustanṣir, المسنتصر بالله

[1] Ibn Kathir: Albidayah Wa-Nahaya, V. XIII. p. 147

[2] Al-Hawadith al-Jami'a . Ibn al-Fuwaṭi

[3] Contadini, Anna (1 January 2012). A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' Tradition. Brill. p. 155. doi:10.1163/9789004222656_005.

[4] Arabic : abū jaʿfar al-mustanṣir bi-llāh al-manṣūr ben aẓ-ẓāhir,
أبو جعفر المسنتصر بالله المنصور بن محمد الظاهر

[5] Arabic : Al-Mustanṣir, المسنتصر بالله

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