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2 - From Revolution to Foundations (750–775)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2021

Tayeb El-Hibri
Tayeb El-Hibri
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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This chapter surveys the rise of the Abbasid family as a branch of the Prophet's Hashimite clan, and the background of discontent against the Umayyads. After focusing on the Abbasid revolution in Khurasan-Transoxiana (747-750), the chapter surveys the consolidation of Abbasid rule under the caliph al-Mansur, and the establishment of a new capital at Baghdad in 762. The transition to the reign of al-Mahdi shows the first signs of Abbasid bureaucracy with the Barmakid ministers, and the emergence of an Islamic ideology, with an emphasis on patronizing the 'ulama and supporting the pilgrimage to Mecca.

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UmayyadsHashimitesAbbasid revolutiondawlaTransoxianaIranian heresiesAncient Near Eastshari'a
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The Abbasid Caliphate
A History
 , pp. 28 - 68
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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