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أسر المسترشد وقتله بمراغة

أسر المسترشد وقتله بمراغة

c. 26 August 1135 CE · 16 Dhu al-Qa'da 529 AH

Maragha

Al-Mustarshid marched on sultan Mas'ud; most of his army betrayed him and he was taken to a fortress near Hamadan. Baghdad put dust on its heads, the women went out unveiled keening, prayers and the khutba were suspended — and Sanjar wrote his nephew Mas'ud of the heavenly and earthly signs, ordering the caliph restored; Mas'ud kissed the ground before him. Then seventeen Batiniyya in Sanjar's escort — sent, it was said, without Mas'ud's knowledge, though some say he planted them — fell on the caliph in his camp and slaughtered him with his companions at Maragha, Thursday 16 Dhu'l-Qa'da 529; Baghdad came out barefoot with torn clothes 1.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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Persia & Central Asia
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1120113011401150 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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موجز

وقعت وحشة بين الخليفة المسترشد والسلطان مسعود بن محمد، فخرج الخليفة لقتاله. ذكر السيوطي أن أكثر عسكره غدروا به، فأسره مسعود وحبسه بقلعة قرب همدان. 2

بغداد تبكي

حثا أهل بغداد التراب على رؤوسهم وخرج النساء يندبن الخليفة، وامتنعت الصلوات والخطبة. 2

المقتل

أرسل السلطان سنجر إلى ابن أخيه مسعود يأمره بإعادة الخليفة، فقبّل مسعود الأرض بين يديه. ثم جاء في عسكر سنجر سبعة عشر من الباطنية، فهجموا على الخليفة في مخيمه وقتلوه ومعه جماعة من أصحابه. وذُكر أن مسعوداً لم يعلم بهم، وقيل بل هو الذي أرسلهم. 2

كان ذلك في مراغة يوم الخميس 16 ذي القعدة سنة 529هـ. 2

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المسترشد بالله الفضل بن المستظهر· السلطان مسعود بن محمد بن ملكشاه· السلطان سنجر بن ملكشاه
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Maragha

People and things also explored

مصادرة مسعود أموال الخلافة وجواب المقتفي· خلع الراشد بالله بالمحضر الفقهي· أسر الغز السلطان سنجر· Dubays ibn Sadaqa al-Mazyadidi· المسترشد بالله الفضل بن المستظهر· السلطان مسعود بن محمد بن ملكشاه· السلطان سنجر بن ملكشاه· Maragha

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 664-665
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p.664-665
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مصادرة مسعود أموال الخلافة وجواب المقتفي

Mas'ud stripped the caliphal palace — four mares and eight mules left in the stable — then in 531 seized all the caliph's estates and demanded a hundred thousand dinars. Al-Muqtafi's answer: 'What wonder — you know what befell al-Mustarshid's wealth at your hands, what al-Rashid took, and that you seized the furniture, the mint, the estates and the tolls. From what shall we raise it? Nothing remains but to hand you the palace itself — I have sworn to God not to take a grain wrongfully from the Muslims'. The sultan desisted, and in Jumada I the caliph's lands were restored.