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al-Mustansir

al-Mustansir

1192 CE1242 CE · Baghdad

Al-Mustansir (1192–1242) was the thirty-sixth Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, ruling from 1226 to 1242. He is best remembered for founding the Mustansiriya madrasa in Baghdad, a major teaching institution that accommodated the four Sunni schools of law along with other subjects. He died in 1242, and was succeeded by his son al-Musta'sim, the last Abbasid caliph of Baghdad.

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