Al-Qaʾim bi-Amr Allah died in Shaʿban of the year 467 AH (1), and the people pledged allegiance to his grandson, whom we mention here in passing.
147 – al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allah ʿUbayd Allah b. Muḥammad al-ʿAbbāsī
The caliph al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allah, Abū ’l-Qāsim ʿUbayd Allah (2) son of Dhakīrat al-Dīn Muḥammad, son of al-Qaʾim bi-Amr Allah ʿAbd Allah, son of al-Qādir bi-llāh Aḥmad b. Isḥāq b. al-Muqtadir al-ʿAbbāsī.
He assumed the caliphate by covenant from his grandfather on the thirteenth of Shaʿban 467 AH, being twenty years old and a few months besides (3). His mother was Arjuwān, an umm walad; she survived him for many years and lived to see her great-grandson al-Mustarshid installed as caliph (4).
He was of excellent conduct and enjoyed wide respect. He ordered the banishment of the disreputable women (5) and the singing girls, decreed that no one should enter a bathhouse unless wrapped in a waist-cloth, and had the bathhouse towers demolished. He was marked by piety, nobility, strength, and lofty ambition (6).
Malikshāh had resolved to expel him from Baghdad, but he wavered,