Seventeenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

This paper concentrates on political affairs and shows how military leaders play a role in changing the head of the state by force. Due to the differences between the Caliph and his eldest son Muntasir, the latter sided with leaders and plotted to assassinate the Caliph. They succeeded in murdering the Caliph while he was in his court in the year 861A.D. This crime opened the door to many calamities. Through this research, I try to give a real picture for what happened to the Abbasid Caliphate during the medieval era. The result of that tragedy (the murdering of the head of state) influenced the affairs of state economically and politically, and led to the decline and fall the Caliphate itself.