Effort of Abbasid al-Mustarshid billah to Recover Worldly Power And Confronting the Iraqi Seljukes

When al - Mustarshid billah reached to caliphate that Seljuk’s government had been Shaken by Turkmen’s decentralization.The Seljukshad forced the caliphs unhand their worldly power and suffice to be mentioned by their names in sermons and coins. Mustarshid billah obsering Seljuk’s weakness, endeavoured leaving himself from sultans’ domination and regaining caliphal worldly power. He was the first caliph, who personally went to war and played an important role in weakening Seljuks’ princes and creating dissesions between them. Supporting the weaker princes was one of the Mustarshid’s important policies against Seljuks’ sultans. His role in revival of Abbasid caliphal power is considerable. Therefore, and he initiated a new period in the history of the Abbasids’ Caliphate. The present paper is a descriptive-analytic approach to examine Abbasids’ caliph effort of Mustarshid billah to recover worldly power, and his confrontation with the Seljuks’ sultans and his role in reviving the worldly power of the Abbasids’ Caliphate.