Assassination of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid" id="mwIg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Abbasid">Abbasid</a> caliph <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mutawakkil" id="mwIw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Al-Mutawakkil">al-Mutawakkil</a> by the Turkish guard, who raise <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Muntasir" id="mwJA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Al-Muntasir">al-Muntasir</a> to the throne, start of the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy_at_Samarra" id="mwJQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Anarchy at Samarra">Anarchy at Samarra</a>".<sup about="#mwt25" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_11#cite_note-3" id="mwJg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwJw">[3]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><cite about="#mwt22" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMottahedeh1975">Mottahedeh, Roy (1975). "The 'Abbāsid Caliphate in Iran". In Frye, R.N. (ed.). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hvx9jq_2L3EC" id="mwBvU" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBvY">The Cambridge History of Iran. Volume 4: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs</i></a>. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. pp.<span id="mwBvc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>77–78. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBvg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBvk" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780521069359" id="mwBvo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780521069359"><bdi id="mwBvs">9780521069359</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt22" class="Z3988" id="mwBvw" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=The+%27Abb%C4%81sid+Caliphate+in+Iran&amp;rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+History+of+Iran.+Volume+4%3A+From+the+Arab+Invasion+to+the+Saljuqs&amp;rft.place=Cambridge%2C+U.K.&amp;rft.pages=77-78&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1975&amp;rft.isbn=9780521069359&amp;rft.aulast=Mottahedeh&amp;rft.aufirst=Roy&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dhvx9jq_2L3EC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+11"></span></span>