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Caliphates
Caliphates were Middle Eastern community jurisdictions headed by a caliph, the civil and religious leader.
754 Questions
What factors led to the decline and collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate?
The Abbasids fell to an ambush of the mongols; while Umayyads fell to economics.
How were non-Arabs treated by the Abbassids?
Answer 1
Non Arabs and Arabs are treated all as Muslims without any discrimination. This was a great difference from the Ummayad dynasty which preceded it, where Arabs were given priority in a social class.
Answer 2
Mawali (Non-Arab Moslems) were treated as equals with Arabs under Abbassid rules and much of the Abbassid power base came from Persians and Khorasanis who were Mawali themselves. They did not receive favorable treatment, but equal treatment.
Who was the rightful first caliph according to the shiites?
he is Ali Ibn Abi Talib (S.A.)
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The Abbasids are the Abbasid people in the Abbasid dynasty. Abbasid refers to Abbas Ibn Abd Al Muttaleb the uncle of the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
What cities were in the lands conquered by Muslims under the first four caliphs?
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Why Omar called as the second caliph?
The Muslim rulers after prophet Muhammad death in year 632 AD were called Caliphs. The first Caliph was Abou Bakr. The Caliph after death of the Caliph Abou Bakr was Omar Ibn Al-Khattab. That is why he was the second Caliph.
Was the caliphate essential to the development of Islam?
Yes. It was during the Rightly-Guided Caliphate that many of the core texts of Islam, especially the Qur'an, were codified. Additionally, upon Mohammed's death, Islam was only an Arabian faith. With the conquests made during Omar's and Othman's Caliphate, Islam became a multi-regional and multi-ethnic faith.
Why did the abbasids move their capital to Baghdad?
The Abbassids moved their capital to Baghdad because their base of support was among the Persians and Mesopotamian Arabs (as opposed to Damascus, which was the base of support for their Umayyad rivals).
What did Imam Al-Ghazali say about Yazid ibn Mu'awiya?
yazeed was a corrupted person he want to change the shariyat of islaam he was a dictator drinker and aiyaash he was baatil he capture the islaamik hukumat by force he was a persion of bani ummaiya. the bani umaiya was fast enemy of bani haashim the banihashim belong to nasleibrahim and that qabila is Mohammad s.a. and when the god rise this qabila and the last nabi bourn in this qabila then the banihashim becem the most respectfull qabila on the earth it was main reson the bani umaiya think what i do then he make a plan abu sufiyan created a fals baiyat on the hand of rasool hinda was his wife she has chaving the kaleja of ameer HAMAZA the maviya is son of hinda the islaam can not interd in there heart that was a policy they tell that we are Muslim but that was wrong and yazeed was son of maviya he was very cruel person hi was zaalim
Why do you think Abbasid and Umayyad rulers allowed non-Muslims to participate in government?
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What most helped the spread of knowledge throughout the Islamic world?
Of all of the factors that went into promoting and diffusing knowledge in the Arab Caliphates, the most important was a single lingua franca, Arabic, which allowed scholars from the extremities of the empire to still be able to engage in the same intellectual pursuits.
Who was the second orthodox caliph?
Umar ibn al-Khattāb also known as Omar, was a friend of the Islamic Prophet, Muhammad, and one of his companions. He became the second Muslim ruler after Muhammad's death and ruled for 10 years
What causes the decentralization of the Abbasid Empire?
How did decentralizatio led to both the fall of baghdad ad at the same time preservatio of Islamic world
He was the third Caliph after Muhammad's death, and was killed by the Umayyads.
Yazied was the son of Caliph Hazrat Amir Mua'awia (RAU).He is the most hateful character in the history of Islam. On his orders the whole family of our beloved Prophet (SAW) was martyred at Karbala. This incident is the most tragic and most shameful incident in our history. To add insult to injury, this accursed person insulted the most reverend female members of the defeated tribe. May curse of Almighty Allah fall on him!
Which Abbasid leader encouraged the arts and scholarship and ruled from 786 to 809?
That would be famous CALIPH HARUN AL-RASHID, who founded the Beit al-Hikma or House of Wisdom, one of the largest libraries in Pre-Modern Times.
