The Abbasids, claiming rule for the Prophet's family, overthrow the Umayyads from Khorasan and found a caliphate that lasts five centuries; Baghdad rises as its capital, and the revolution's promise to the Prophet's kin curdles for the Alids, whose claims it had used.
Tagged: Mu'tazila Muslim Sunni Islam
The Event
- Date
- 750 (exact)
- Era
- Abbasid; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Khorasan and Iraq
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Sunni Islam, Mu'tazila
- Key figures
- Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah, Abu Muslim
Connections
- Mu'awiya founds the Umayyad Caliphate; overthrew
Primary Sources
- Al-Tabari, History
Secondary Sources
- Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates (Routledge, 3rd ed. 2016)
- Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (Faber, 1991)
Provenance: HIST-0218; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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