Al-Mutawakkil III

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Muhammad al-Mutawakkil III (died 1543) (Arabic: محمد المتوكل على الله‎) was caliph from 1509 to 1516, and again in 1517; he was the last caliph of the later, Egyptian-based period of the Abbasid dynasty. Since the Mongol sack of Baghdad and execution of the Caliph Al-Musta'sim in 1258, the Abbasid caliphs resided in Egypt from 1261, nominal rulers used to legitimize the actual rule of the Mamluks.

Al-Mutawakkil III was deposed briefly towards the end of his reign in 1516 by his predecessor Al-Mustamsik, but was briefly restored in the next year. In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim I defeated the Mamluk Sultanate and made Egypt part of the Ottoman Empire. Al Mutawakkil was captured and transported to Istanbul, where he agreed to formally surrender the title of caliph as soon as he died, as well as its outward emblems, the sword and the mantle of Muhammad, to the Ottoman sultan Selim I.

Al-Mutawakkil III Abbasid Born:  ? Died: 1543
Sunni Islam titles
Preceded by Al-Mustamsik	Caliph of Islam 1509 – 1516	Succeeded by Al-Mustamsik
Preceded by Al-Mustamsik	Caliph of Islam 1517	Succeeded by Selim I