# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-mutawakkil
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:34:04.011Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/al-mutawakkil"
name: "Al-Mutawakkil"
slug: "al-mutawakkil"
description: "The Abbasid caliph who pushed the empire to its widest reach, then ended a decades-long inquisition against Islamic scholars — only to be cut down by his own guards and his son in a palace murder that tipped the caliphate into chaos."
tagline: "10th Abbasid caliph (822–861, r. 847–861)"
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gender: "male"
birthDate: "822"
deathDate: "0861-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ja'far ibn Muhammad became the tenth Abbasid caliph in 847, taking the throne after his brother al-Wathiq. Deeply religious, he reversed the Mu'tazila doctrine that had dominated the court, ended the Mihna — a sustained persecution of scholars — and freed the imprisoned jurist Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Under his rule the empire reached its maximum territorial extent, though his governance toward non-Muslims was harsh. On 11 December 861, members of the Turkic guard assassinated him with the backing of his own son, al-Muntasir. The killing opened what became known as the Anarchy at Samarra, a spiral of civil war that would unravel the caliphate's grip on power.