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Al-Mustansir I

1192–1242 · 13th century

Al-Mustansir I was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 1226 to 1242, one of the last before the Mongol conquest. He strengthened the caliphate's small state in Iraq, annexed Erbil in 1233 on the death of its ruler Gökböri, and founded the Mustansiriya, a college in Baghdad that taught all four Sunni schools of law and opened in 1233.

Al-Mustansir I
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Begteginid dynasty

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Al-Mustansir I. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/al-mustansir-i
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