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1 day ago · Abbasid Caliphate. The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire ( / əˈbæsɪd, ˈæbəsɪd /; Arabic: الْخِلَافَة الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, romanized : al-Khilāfa al-ʿAbbāsiyya) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib ...
5 days ago · The "inquisition" (Mihnah) unleashed by the seventh Abbasid caliph, 'Abdallah al-Ma'mun (r. 813-833), has long attracted the attention of modern scholars of the intellectual, political, and religious history of the early Abbasid era.
2 days ago · Abbasid caliph Al-Ma’mun (left) sends an envoy to Byzantine emperor Theophilos (right), from the Madrid Skylitzes Abbasid and Byzantine sources are filled with names of Arabs in Byzantium. Capturing Arabs and transferring them to Constantinople was a common practice after raiding Abbasid frontiers.
The reasons of why al-Ma'mun's started the creating of Qur'an persecution (the Mihna) are always discussed, but the reasons for why al-Mutawakkil ended it are not discussed There was no revolution or pressure on Al-Mutawakkil to end it, he did it suddenly.
2 days ago · Around 830 CE, Caliph al-Ma’mun encouraged al-Khwārizmī to write a treatise on algebra, Al-Jabr (or The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing). This became his most ...
2 days ago · May 19, 2024 - 18:15. TEHRAN – On Saturday, during a momentous event in Mashhad, an inheritance coin of Imam Reza (AS) which was minted in occasion of the eighth Shia Imam’s appointment as heir of Al-Ma’mun [the Abbasid caliph], has been unveiled. “The coin symbolizes the influential presence of Imam Reza (AS) in Iran, especially in the ...
1 day ago · Al-Ma'mun wanted to draw Imam al-Rida (a) into debate and ruin people's belief about Imams (a) having special knowledge including al-'ilm al-ladunni (God-given knowledge). Regarding this issue, al-Shaykh al-Saduq said, "al-Ma'mun brought high-level scholars of different schools against Imam (a) to devalue Imam's (a) reasoning and this was out ...
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