Al-Mustamsik (, Abū ṣ-Ṣabr Yaʿqūb al-Mustamsik bi-Llāh; died 1521) was the sixteenth and penultimate
Abbasid caliph of
Cairo
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under the tutelage of the
Mamluk Sultanate. He served as caliph twice, his first term from 1497 to 1508 and his second term from 1516 to 1517, when he abdicated the position to his son,
al-Mutawakkil III.
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1521 deaths
15th-century Abbasid caliphs
16th-century Abbasid caliphs
Cairo-era Abbasid caliphs
1470s births
Sons of Abbasid caliphs
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