Al-Mutasim, Caliph · Founder of Samarra

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RulerCaliph · Founder of Samarra

Al-Mutasimالمعتصم

Samarra

The caliph of the Turkish guard, remembered for answering a woman's cry at Amorium.

He built an army of Turkish slave-soldiers and moved the capital to Samarra in 836. In 838 he sacked Amorium; later stories say he marched after a captive Muslim woman cried out 'Wa Mutasimah!' He continued the Mihna and Ahmad ibn Hanbal was flogged.

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