Justice and punishment under reign al-Mutadid Billah 16th Caliph of Abbasid Caliphate

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Justice and punishment under reign al-Mutadid Billah 16th Caliph of Abbasid Caliphate

Asslamoalaikum sisters brothers friends and elders, in this informative about Islamic caliphate and educatiional video, We are describing the judicial practices and methods of punishment under the rule of al-Mutadid Billah, the 16th Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate. So get to know all insights into how justice was administered and maintained during this significant era

In the dispensation of justice, he was characterized by what Malti-Douglas describes as "severity bordering on sadism". While tolerant of error and not above displays of sentimentality and tenderness, when his wrath was aroused he resorted to torture in the most ingenious ways, and had special torture chambers constructed underneath his palace. Chroniclers such as al-Mas'udi and the Mamluk historian al-Safadi describe in great detail the tortures inflicted by the Caliph on prisoners, as well as his practice of making an example of them by having them publicly displayed in Baghdad. Thus the Caliph is reported to have used bellows to inflate his prisoners, or buried them upside down in pits. At the same time they justify his severity as legitimate, being in the interests of the state. Malti-Douglas remarks that when al-Safadi compared al-Mu'tadid with the founder of the Abbasid state, calling him "al-Saffah the Second", this was not only to emphasize his restoration of the Caliphate's fortunes, but also a direct allusion to the meaning of al-Saffah's name, "the Blood-Shedder"

So friends tomorow inshaAllah in this same time we will be described Family of Mutadid Billah 16th Caliph of Abbasid Caliphate.

Allah Hafiz

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