The Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadir Found on Papyrus Record

This article presents the edition of an Arabic papyrus fragment currently kept at the papyrus collection of the Austrian National Library under the inventory number P. Vindob. Inv. A.P. 1757. The fragment contains only the name of the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir bi-llāh (r. 295-320/908-932) and part of the title amīr al-muʾminīn (the commander of the believers). Although too poor to afford any profitable historical discussion, the fragment remains important as it records the name of the caliph al-Muqtadir bi-llāh, whose long reign had unfortunately left very little documentary evidence on papyrus.