Al-Mustakfī (Merveilles des Morte)

al-Mustakfī المستكفي بالله‎
Caliph of Islam Imam of Baghdad Amir al-Mu'minin
Head bust of Caliph al-Mustakfī (c. 1335)
Reign	1329-1340
Predecessor	al-Ḥākim I
Successor	al-Wāthiq I
Issue
al-Wāthiq al-Ḥākim II
Full name
Abū ar-Rabīʾ Sulaymān
House	Abbasid Dynasty
Father	al-Ḥākim I
Born	1281 Cairo
Died	December, 1340 Baghdad
Burial	January, 1341
Religion	Sunni Islam

al-Mustakfī bi-llāh (Arabic: المستكفي بالله‎), born Abū ar-Rabīʾ Sulaymān, was the 42nd Abbasid Caliph of Islam and second Imam of the Baghdad Imamate. Although the Abbasid Caliph resided in the Mamluke Sultanate following the Siege of Baghdad in 1258, the Abbasid Dynasty would relocate to Baghdad in 1328 following the death of Imam Andalah al-Ebrahimi, which would culminate in Caliph al-Mustakfī being appointed as Imam of the Baghdad Imamate in 1329, re-constituting the Abbasid Caliphate.

During the Taymiyyah Revolution, al-Mustakfī would openly support the Disciples of Ibn Taymiyyah Order, supporting their conflict in the Jihad against impiety. and establishing the Order of Taymiyyah, one of the earliest examples of a permanent, standing militia.

Although very little information exists due to purge of records following the Taymiyyah Revolution, it is said in Islamic folklore that Caliph al-Mustakfī suffered from ill-health much of his life, and as such ruled from his palace, likely the Palace of the Green Dome, during the later years of his reign. Any surviving records of the Caliph would be burned during the Great Fire of Cairo in 1579.

Line of Succession

• al-Mustakfī I (b. 1281) [1329 - 1340]
  • al-Wāthiq (b. 1300) [1340 - 1350]
  • al-Ḥākim II (b. 1304) [1350 - 1352]
    • al-Muʿtaḍid (b. 1325) [1352 - 1362]
• Ibrahim bin Ali (b. 1285 - 1335)
  • al-Mutawakkil I (b. 1332) [1362 - 1395]