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Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (known to critics as as the "mad Caliph" or "Nero of Islam") is said to have disappeared mysteriously, leaving only a donkey and bloodstained clothes behind. Is there a consensus among historians as to what caused his disappearance?

by /u/lost-in-earth in /r/AskHistorians

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