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16th Caliph of Cairo
al-Mustamsik
المستمسك بالله
16th Caliph of Cairo
(first period)
Reign27 September 1497–1508
Predecessoral-Mutawakkil II
Successoral-Mutawakkil III
(second period)
Reign1516–1517
Predecessoral-Mutawakkil III
Successoral-Mutawakkil III
Born1470s
Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate (now Egypt)
Died1521
Ottoman Empire
Issueal-Mutawakkil III
Fatheral-Mutawakkil II
ReligionIslam

Al-Mustamsik (Arabic: أبو الصبر يعقوب المستمسك بالله, Abū ṣ-Ṣabr Yaʿqūb al-Mustamsik bi-Llāh; died 1521) was the sixteenth and penultimate Abbasid caliph of Cairo 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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Al-Mustamsik Mamluk Abbasid dynastyBorn: 1470s Died: 1521
Sunni Islam titles
Preceded byAl-Mutawakkil II Caliph of Cairo
1497–1508
Succeeded byAl-Mutawakkil III
Preceded byAl-Mutawakkil III Caliph of Cairo
1516–1517
Succeeded byAl-Mutawakkil III
Abbasid Caliphs
Caliphs of Baghdad
(749–1258)
Caliphs of Cairo
(1261–1517)
indicates ephemeral caliphs recognized in the city of Baghdad only


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