Al-Mu'tadid II

Al-Mu'tadid II (Arabic: أبو الفتح داود المعتضد بالله, Abū l-Fatḥ Dāwud al-Muʿtaḍid bi-Llāh; died 23 July 1441) was the eleventh Abbasid caliph of Cairo for the Mamluk Sultanate between 1414 and 1441.

His half-brother Abu al-Fadl al-Musta'in was deposed by sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh in 1414,¹ who installed al-Mu'tadid II, as his replacement.²

Al-Mu'tadid II remained in the office from 1414 to 1441. Having no surviving sons, al-Mu'tadid II arranged to pass the caliphal title to his full-brother Sulayman³ near the end of his life.⁴ Shortly after al-Mu'tadid II's death on 23 July 1441, Sulayman ascended to the caliphate as al-Mustakfi (II) billah.³

References

• "Biography of Al-Mu'tadid II" (in Arabic). Islampedia.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-11.

Bibliography

• Banister, Mustafa (2021). The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261–1517: Out of the Shadows. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474453363.
• Holt, Peter Malcolm (1993). "Al-Musta'in (II)". The Encyclopaedia of Islam: New Edition. Vol. VII (Mif – Naz) (2nd ed.). Leiden: E.J. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-09419-2.
• Garcin, Jean-Claude (1967). "Histoire, opposition, politique et piétisme traditionaliste dans le Ḥusn al Muḥādarat de Suyûti" [History, opposition, politics and traditionalistic pietism in Suyuti's Ḥusn al Muḥādarat] (PDF). (in French). . : 33–90. :.  . Archived from (, 14.62 MB) on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-07-22.