Abbasid Empire: Part I – The Rise To Power
@Heart sits in on a lecture held by Ali Galadery on one of the major Islamic Dynasties – The Abassids.The Abassids took their name from al-’Abbas, a paternal uncle of Muhammad and early supporter of the Prophet. What made the Abassid seizure of the caliphate unique was the heavy reliance on client Muslims, or mawali. The mawali were foreigners who had converted to Islam; because, however, they were foreigners they could not be incorporated into the kinship-based society of Arabs. When ‘Abassids took power, the center of Islamic culture...
