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First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Musta"sim succeeded his father in late 1242.
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He was wrapped up in a carpet by the Mongols and crushed to death by their horses. He is noted for his opposition to the rise of Shajar al-Durr to the Egyptian throne during the Seventh Crusade. He sent a message from Baghdad to the Mamluks in Egypt that said: "If you do not have men there tell us so we can send you mentor".
However, First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Musta"sim had to face the greatest menace against the caliphate since its establishment in 632, the invasion of the Mongol forces that, under Hulagu Khan, had already wiped out any resistance in Transoxiana and Khorasan.
In 1255/1256 Hulagu forced the Abbasid to lend their forces for the campaign against Alamut. In 1258, Hulagu invaded the Abbasid domain, comprising a little more than what is now Iraq and Syria.
In an advance on Baghdad, Hulagu Khan had several columns advance simultaneously on the city, and laid siege to lieutenant Baghdad was sacked on February 10 and the caliph was killed by Hulagu Khan soon afterwards.
lieutenant is reckoned that the Mongols did not want to shed "royal blood", so they wrapped him in a rug and trampled him to death with their horses.
The Travels of Marco Polo reports that upon finding the caliph"s great stores of treasure which could have been spent on the defense of his realm, Hulagu Khan locked him in his treasure room without food or water, telling him "eat of thy treasure as much as thou wilt, since thou art so fond of lieutenant"
The Mamluk Sultans and Syria later appointed an, but they were even more symbolic than by now marginalized Abbasid Caliphs in Baghdad. Even though they kept the title for about 250 years more, other than installing the Sultan in ceremonies, these Caliphs had little importance. After the Ottomans conquered Egypt in 1517, the Abbasid Caliph of Egypt, First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Mutawakkil III was transported to Constantinople, and Sultan Selim I announced himself to be a Caliph.
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Quotations: "If you do not have men there tell us so we can send you mentor".
