Al-Hakim I

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Al-Hakim I
الحاكم بأمر الله الأول
2nd
Caliph of Cairo
Tenure21 November 1262 – 19 January 1302
PredecessorAbu'l-Qasim Ahmad al-Mustansir
Successoral-Mustakfi I
Bornc. 1247
Baghdad, Iraq
Died19 January 1302
Cairo, Egypt
Burial
Cairo
Issue
FatherAbu 'Ali al-Hasan ibn Abu Bakr
ReligionSunni Islam

Al-Hakim I (

Mamluk Sultanate
. He reigned between 1262 and 1302.

Life

Al-Hakim I held the position of the Caliph of Cairo from 1262 to 1302. He was an alleged great-great-great grandson of the Abbasid caliph

Hīt in Iraq by the Mongols. Only about fifty troops escaped with al-Hakim, who, making his way back to Cairo and after a careful scrutiny of his genealogical claim to be an Abbasid, was proclaimed caliph in succession to al-Mustansir in 1262. Since al-Hakim's connection with the Abbasids is distant and faint, it cannot now be determined whether he was really from that family as he claimed or not. In any case, al-Hakim I had no further adventures, served as a legitimating and ceremonial functionary for the Mamluk sultans in Cairo, reigned for thirty-nine years, and became the progenitor of all the subsequent Caliphs of Cairo, whether he was really an Abbasid or not. Although he was kept in office after 1262, the Mamluk sultans kept him as a virtual prisoner in the citadel, until Sultan Lajin
released him in December 1296, allowing him to live in a house in the city and giving him a bigger financial emolument.

Family tree

Al-Hakim traced his roots back to Al-Mustarshid in the following line: Abu 'Ali al-Hasan, the son of Abu Bakr, the son of al-Hasan, the son of 'Ali, son of al-Mustarshid. His relation with the dynasty was distant and faint.

Al-Mustarshid
Ali ibn al-Mustarshid
Hasān ibn Ali
Abu Bakr ibn Hasān
Abu 'Ali al-Hasan
Al-Hakim I
Ahmad ibn al-HakimAl-Mustakfi IAl-Wathiq I (Ahmad's Son, Grandson of Al-Hakim)

References

Bibliography

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Al-Hakim I
Mamluk Abbasid dynasty
Born:  ? Died: 19 January 1302
Sunni Islam titles
Preceded by Caliph of Cairo
16 November 1262 – 19 January 1302
Succeeded by
Al-Mustakfi I