Al-Mutawakkil II (, Abū l-ʿIzz ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; 1416 – 27 September 1497) was the fifteenth

Abbasid caliph The Abbasid caliphs were the holders of the Islamic title of caliph who were members of the Abbasid dynasty, a branch of the Quraysh tribe descended from the uncle of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib. The family came ...

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for the

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between 1479 and 1497. His father, Ya'qub, was son of

Al-Mutawakkil I Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr (died 9 January 1406), commonly known as al-Mutawakkil I, was the 44th Abbasid caliphs of Cairo, Abbasid caliph and the seventh one to rule in Cairo, reigning from 1362 to 1383 and then from 1389 to 1406, unde ...

Life

His name was ''Abdul Aziz ibn Ya`qub ibn Muhammad''. Al-Mutawakkil II and his mother is called ''Haji Malik'', the daughter of one of the soldiers. He was loved between the private and the public because of the excellence of literature, ethics and humility, and a screen for each one. When his uncle became ill, and his illness was entrusted to him after the office, when he died on the sixteenth of Muharram of 884. In 885 the prince led a campaign to the Turkmen. He met with the Emir of the State (the White Shah), defeated the

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, captured the Yishpak and was killed on the shore of the Euphrates River. Then the Sultan "Qaitbay" reconciled with the Emirate (the White Shah). He was succeeded by

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