The Umayyads established a centralized and hereditary system of rule, where power was concentrated in the hands of a few family members. On the other hand, the Abbasids introduced a more inclusive and merit-based approach to governance, where positions were open to a wider range of individuals based on their abilities rather than their familial ties. Additionally, the Abbasids shifted the capital from Damascus to Baghdad, signaling a change in the political and cultural center of the Islamic world.
Under the Umayyads, Mawali (or non-Arab Muslims) were traditionally excluded from political and social affairs. The Umayyad rulers, in particular, treated them as second-class Muslims. The evidence of this treatment was that Mawali were not allowed to have many government positions and that they were taxed whereas Arab Muslims were not taxed at all. Mawali made up an important component of the Umayyad Caliphate, especially Persians. Persia was always a high seat of culture in the Islamic Empire. As a result, ideas moved quite freely throughout Persia and Persians considered themselves to be of equal worth to Arabs.
Conversely, under the Abbassids, consistently treated Mawalis like Persians equal to or better than their Arab brethren which created animosity and a sense of betrayal. Many Arabs saw the Persians as the major backers of the Caliphate and that they were a tool for Persian interests. It was also perceived that the Persians were first servants to the caliphs but climbed way up the social ladder to a place they did not belong.
The Abbasids took control
They built a strong bureaucracy and huge standing army.
The Abbasids were an Arab dynasty descended from Abbas, uncle of Muhammad, who supplanted the Umayyads in ad 750.
The abbasids were rulers of the Islamic Empire back in the 700s to 1200s.
Baghdad (currently is the capital of Iraq)
Assasination
a group called Abbasid gained support from other Muslims and when the abbasids invited the umayyads over for dinner and a meeting the abbasids left the room leaving the umayyads to be assassinated
no the umayyads ruled damascus as there capital the abbasids took Baghdad as there capital...
The Umayyads and the Abbasids.
The Abbasids took control
the abbasids defeated the umayyads in the battle of the great zab in ad 750.they did this because the umayyads started ruling like kings.they started hunting and dancing and only kept the Arabs in the top position.they also made non-Arab Muslims pay more taxes than them.people became unhappy with the umayyads and that is why the abbasids started the war.
They built a strong bureaucracy and huge standing army.
The Abbasids were an Arab dynasty descended from Abbas, uncle of Muhammad, who supplanted the Umayyads in ad 750.
The Abbasids fell to an ambush of the mongols; while Umayyads fell to economics.
Baghdad and Cordoba were the two centres of great learning during the Caliphate of Abbasids and Umayyads.
Yes because the Rashidun Caliphate started at 632 AD and ended in 661 AD so the Umayyad caliphate started and the Umayyad caliphate ended in 749 AD so the Abbasid Caliphate start....
The Ummayad Caliphate was overthrown through proselitism and a series of revolts, together with the spread of Islam. It were the Abbasids who overthrew the Umayyad caliphate. They brutally butchered all the members of the Umayyads they could lay hand on.