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the city walls, with al-Muqtadir falling in the field. Triumphant, Mu'nis now installed al-Qahir as caliph, but the two quickly became estranged. The new caliph resumed contacts with the defeated court faction, and found himself soon under confinement in his palace. Nevertheless, in August 933 al-Qahir managed to lure Mu'nis and his main lieutenants to the palace, where they were executed.
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in his place, but reneged after a few days. Mu'nis now possessed virtually dictatorial authority over the Abbasid government. In 931, al-Muqtadir rallied enough support to force him to leave Baghdad, but in 932, after gathering troops, Mu'nis marched onto Baghdad and defeated the caliphal army before
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writes of him that he "kept the remnants of the army together and saved the caliphate on several occasions", while according to the Orientalist Harold Bowen, "Mu'nis's influence was on the whole exerted for good", but he was "neither strong nor intelligent enough" to prevent the renewed decline of
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This marked the apogee of Mu'nis's career: he was now in virtual control of the government and a decisive voice in the appointment of Ibn al-Furat's successors as viziers. At the same time, however, his power created a widening rift between him and the Caliph, with al-Muqtadir even plotting to
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held power in Adharbayjan, having secured the Caliph's recognition. It was Mu'nis who was responsible for persuading al-Muqtadir to release Yusuf in 922 and restore him to his old position, this time as a servant of the Abbasid government. In 920–922, Mu'nis was instrumental in defeating a
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invaded Fars, Sebük-eri called on the caliph for aid, and an army under Mu'nis was sent. Al-Layth was defeated and captured, while Sebük-eri was soon deposed as governor when he failed to gather the promised tribute. In the same year, 909/10, Mu'nis supervised a
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Mu'nis rose to prominence early during the reign of al-Muqtadir: in December 908, shortly after the caliph's accession, a faction of the bureaucracy and the army launched a coup to depose him and replace him with his brother
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and deported its population. In retaliation, he led a major raid in late summer 916, capturing several fortresses in the vicinity of Malatya, while ordering Abu'l-Qasim Ali to lead another raid from
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in the 880s. He rose to high rank before his abrupt disgrace, likely the result of his participation court intrigues, in 901. He spent the next seven years in virtual exile as governor of
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and his faction. The conflict between the two came to a head during Ibn al-Furat's third vizierate, in 923–924. This was a troubled period, which saw Mu'nis sent to quasi-exile in
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In 928, following the dismissal of his favourite, Ali ibn Isa, from the vizierate, Mu'nis launched a coup and deposed al-Muqtadir and installed his half-brother
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in 908. He quickly distinguished himself by saving al-Muqtadir from a palace coup in December 908. With the support of the caliph and the powerful queen-mother,
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the Abbasid state. On the other hand, his seizure of power by military force and the killing of a caliph—the first such incident since the
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two generations before—set a dangerous precedent and heralded a new period of anarchy; after his death, powerless caliphs became
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and the coup collapsed. This earned him the gratitude and support of the young caliph and his influential and powerful mother,
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and control of the Abbasid government and its revenue until Baghdad, and the Abbasid Caliphate with it, fell to the
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without the Caliph's approval. In his first campaign in 918, Yusuf initially withdrew before Mu'nis to his capital,
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assassinate his leading general in 927. In the summer of the same year, Mu'nis led an army to the border around
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At court, Mu'nis was an early and staunch opponent of Ibn al-Furat, and an ally of the latter's main rival,
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and the former Saffarid general Sebük-eri, who had seized control of the province. When al-Layth's brother
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with the Byzantines. In December 912/January 913, he was named governor of the Byzantine frontier zone (
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and returning with many prisoners. In the next year, he succeeded in recovering the province of
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in the hands of a series of regional military strongmen, who vied for the title of
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The role of Mu'nis in the history of the Abbasid Caliphate is ambiguous. Historian
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In 924 he helped secure the dismissal and execution of his long-time rival, the
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in 880/1, and had risen to the position of chief of police of the field army (
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sent to take Egypt. The Fatimids once again took Alexandria and occupied the
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Al-Dhahabi, however, records that in 901 the caliph banished him to
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eunuch slave, he entered military service under the future caliph
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army from 908 to his death in 933 CE, and virtual dictator and
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In 918–919, Mu'nis campaigned against the rebellious ruler of
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of al-Muqtadir, struck during the last year of his reign
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help, successfully defended Baghdad itself against a
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Index

Baghdad
Iraq
Abbasid Empire
Zanj Rebellion
Arab–Byzantine wars
Qarmatians
First Fatimid invasion of Egypt
Second Fatimid invasion of Egypt
Yusuf ibn Abi'l-Saj
Arabic
Abbasid
king-maker
Byzantine Greek
al-Mu'tadid
Mecca
al-Muqtadir
Shaghab
Byzantine Empire
Baghdad
Qarmatians
Fatimid
Egypt
vizier
Ibn al-Furat
al-Qahir
Buyids

al-Dhahabi
Byzantine Greek
eunuch

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