Muhammad ibn Harun al-Rashid, better known by his
regnal name of
al-Amin (April 787 – 24/25 September 813) , was the sixth
Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his father,
Harun al-Rashid in 809 and ruled until he was deposed and killed in 813, during the
civil war with his brother,
al-Ma'mun.