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Umayyads & Abbasids
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Umayyads & Abbasids
- http://lostislamichistory.com/the-abbasid-revolution/
Umayyads
- Mu'awiyah
- hereditary caliphate
- Capital to Damascus
- CONQUESTS
- Est. & West of Mediterrean
- North Africa
- Berbers
- Strait of Gibraltar to Spain
- stopped @ battle of tours
- Strait of Gibraltar to Spain
- Uneasy border w/ Byzantines
- Old Roman Empire
- Mesopotamia
- Persia
- Central Asia
- wealth, new ethnic groups, contact with other civilizations
- THE STRUGGLE BUS
- bias towards Arabs v. non-arabs
- Financial: were corrupt and terrible rulers
- Capital far from frontier = hard to govern
- hostile regions
- HUSSEIN
- 72 people vs. 10,000. real stupid and all died, but everyone was like :0 and he became a martyr
- split in Islam
- 72 people vs. 10,000. real stupid and all died, but everyone was like :0 and he became a martyr
- Loss of Power
- corrupt and overthrown
- Mu'awiyah
Abbasids
- Abu Al- Abbas
- Overthrew Umayyads; set up Abbasids in 750
- Capital: Baghdad on Tigris
- river traffic and caravan
- Persian Influence
- related to Muhammad- happy Shia
- religion, not ethnicity- not happy shia but HAPPY not arabs
- Abu Al- Abbas