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'AL HASSAN al-mustadi bin YUSUF al-mustanjid' (1142 - 1180) (Arabic: المستضئ بأمر الله) was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1170 to 1180. Like his predecessor, he continued to occupy a more or less independent position, with a Vazir and courtly surroundings, and supported by only a small force sufficient for an occasional local campaign.during his reign saladin,ended the fatemid caliphate,and became the sultan of Egypt and declared his allegiance to the abbasids.Ibn jawzy-famous chronicle- said about him :he reduced the taxes,and was very fair with his sujects,built many mosques,schools,ribats''.
and in 1080 caliph Al-mustadi dies and was succeeded by his son Ahmed (an-nasir)

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★ ''This text is adapted from William Muir's public domain, The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall.''