شغب أم المقتدر
شغب أم المقتدر
Al-Muqtadir's mother — a Greek, or a Turk named Gharib or Shaghab; she founded a hospital endowed at seven thousand dinars a year, and six hundred thousand dinars were looted for her the night of her son's deposition 1.
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- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Shaghab, mother of the caliph al-Muqtadir. She was of Byzantine origin, or Turkish, it is said. Her name was Gharib, or Shaghab 1.
Her affairs
She founded a hospital whose annual cost reached seven thousand dinars. Six hundred thousand dinars were looted from her on the night her son was deposed 1.
In the caliphate of al-Qahir he confiscated her property and beat her until she died in torment 2.
According to Ibn al-Jawzi, she was tortured in various ways. She grieved when news reached her of her son's killing, and she died about seven months after him 3.
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 585,589,591
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 597
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi, p. 545
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islam.museum contributors. “شغب أم المقتدر”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shaghab-umm-al-muqtadir/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.