Al-Mustamsik

al-Mustamsik المستمسك بالله
16th Caliph of Cairo (first period)
Reign	27 September 1497–1508
Predecessor	al-Mutawakkil II
Successor	al-Mutawakkil III
(second period)
Reign	1516–1517
Predecessor	al-Mutawakkil III
Successor	al-Mutawakkil III
Born	1470s Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate (now Egypt)
Died	1521 Ottoman Empire
Issue	al-Mutawakkil III
Father	al-Mutawakkil II
Religion	Islam

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.

References

• "Biography of Al-Mustamsik" (in Arabic). Islampedia.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-11.

Bibliography

• Garcin, Jean-Claude (1967). "Histoire, opposition, politique et piétisme traditionaliste dans le Ḥusn al Muḥādarat de Suyûti" [History, opposition, politics and traditionalistic pietism in Suyuti's Ḥusn al Muḥādarat] (PDF). Annales Islamologiques (in French). 7. Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale: 33–90. doi:10.3406/anisl.1967.909. S2CID 259055409. Archived from the original (PDF, 14.62 MB) on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
• Holt, P. M. (1984). "Some Observations on the 'Abbāsid Caliphate of Cairo". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 47 (3). University of London: 501–507. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00113710. JSTOR 618882. S2CID 161092185.

Al-Mustamsik Mamluk Abbasid dynasty Born: 1470s Died: 1521
Sunni Islam titles
Preceded by Al-Mutawakkil II	Caliph of Cairo 1497–1508	Succeeded by Al-Mutawakkil III
Preceded by Al-Mutawakkil III	Caliph of Cairo 1516–1517	Succeeded by Al-Mutawakkil III