Person787–813
Al-Amin
Muhammad ibn Harun al-Amin, sixth Abbasid caliph (809–813), son of Harun al-Rashid and the Abbasid princess Zubayda. Named his father’s first heir, with his elder half-brother al-Ma'mun to follow him and to govern Khorasan, he removed al-Ma'mun from the succession in 810, lost the civil war that followed and was put to death on the orders of al-Ma'mun’s general Tahir ibn al-Husayn when Baghdad fell in September 813.
- Dates
- April 787 – between 24 September and 25 September 813
- Events
- 1 event
- Regions
- Middle East and Egypt
- In the threads
- Middle East and Egypt (6th–10th c.)
Events
- Fourth Fitna: al-Amin against al-Ma'mun and the siege of BaghdadJanuary 811 – September 813 · Middle East and Egypt