The Emergence of the position of Prince of Princes and Its Impact on the Authority of the Caliphate and the Ministry: Muhammad bin Raiq and Caliph al-Radi as a Model

Abstract

      During the second Abbasid era, the Abbasid caliphate witnessed a lot of political fluctuations, corruption prevailed in it, and bribes increased to obtain political positions and the commanders of the soldiers managed to handle the affairs of the state, and the parties to the state gradually began to separate from the center of the caliphate. Basra and his title Prince of Princes in 324 AH, handed him the reins of affairs and gave his hand in all the powers of the state, hoping that he would regain the prestige of the caliphate and the ministry and control the situation, but the opposite appeared and the caliph lost all his powers and he only had religious leadership and the name of the caliphate only and the ministry was nullified creating the position of Prince of princes