Al-Mahdi
3rd Abbasid caliph (r. 775–785)
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Third Abbasid Caliph, reigning from 775 to 785. His decade at the head of the caliphate produced the largest expansions of Islam's three holiest mosques until the modern Saudi era—a building program that reshaped Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem.
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Born in 744 or 745 as Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Manṣūr, he took the regnal name al-Mahdī—"He who is guided by God"—when he succeeded his father, al-Mansur, as caliph in 775. The ten years that followed turned him into an architect of sacred space. He expanded the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, reconstructed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem with fifteen aisles and a central dome—larger than the current seven-aisle Fatimid layout—and oversaw the expansion of Mecca's Masjid Al-Haram on a scale unmatched until the Saudis began building in the modern era. He died in 785.
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