Name: Kerak Castle
Address: Kerak Castle

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al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'

Abbasid caliph [575–622], longest reign of any — forty-seven years. His web of correspondents reached every court till men said he was served by jinn; al-Muwaffaq: 'he revived the caliphate's awe that died with al-Mu'tasim'. Ibn Wasil's counter-verdict: an unjust sira, lands taken, Imami leanings — Ibn al-Jawzi's diplomatic 'best after the Prophet: he whose daughter lay beneath him'. Mid-reign he took up hadith, a seventy-hadith booklet heard as far as Aleppo; blind at the end, a slave-girl he taught wrote his rescripts. Khwarazmshah's march broke in snow without a battle; he died Sunday at Ramadan's end, 622.

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al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'