Al-Hakim II (, Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad al-Ḥākim bi-amr Allāh; died 1352) was the fifth Abbasid caliph of Cairo for the Mamluk Sultanate (1341–1352).
Life
He was son of al-Mustakafi. He took the office at the beginning of the month of Muharram in 742 AH, as Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun had recommended this, and his father al-Mustakfi had entrusted the succession to him , When he took the order of the Sultanate. a council was hel to ensure that he is the rightful heir , Ibn Qayyud said: The deceased caliph who died in the city of Qus recommended after him the succession of his son as the deputy of the city of Qus assured . The caliph al-Hakim II died in the middle of 1352 CE (753 AH) with plague. The genealogy of the Abbasids including their rival Zaydi imams Caliphs of the Abbasid Caliphate Caliphs of Cairo Zaydi imams
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