Al-Musta'sim (Cairo)

Abū Yahya Zakariya al-Musta'sim bi'llah (Arabic: أبو يحيى زكريا المستعصم بالله; died 1389) was the eighth Abbasid caliph of Cairo under the tutelage of the Mamluk Sultanate.

Al-Musta'sim was the son of al-Wathiq I (the fourth Caliph of Cairo).

He was first installed in the office in 1377 for a short period of time, after al-Mutawakkil I was deposed.

After few years, in 1386 al-Musta'sim was again installed as caliph of Cairo for the Mamluk Sultanate.

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