Abbasid appropriation of most former Umayyad territory
Eventual establishment of the Emirate of Córdoba
End of privileged status for Arabs
End of the Umayyad Caliphate in Middle East
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Turks
Iranians
Shia Muslims[1]
Mawali
Some Arabs
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Qays
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Ibrahim al-Imam As-Saffah Al-Mansur Abu Muslim Qahtaba ibn Shabib † Hasan ibn Qahtaba Humayd ibn Qahtaba Abd Allah ibn Ali
Marwan II Nasr ibn Sayyar † Yazid ibn Umar Hawthara ibn Suhayl Ma'n ibn Zai'da
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Ridda Wars
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Second Fitna
Revolt of Ibn al-Ash'ath
Revolt of al-Ashdaq
Revolt of Yazid b. al-Muhallab
Revolt of Harith b. Surayj
Revolt of Zayd b. Ali
Berber Revolt
Revolt of Yahya ibn Zayd
Third Fitna
Ibadi revolt
Abbasid Revolution
Revolt of Muhammad the Pure Soul
Battle of Fakhkh
Qays–Yaman war (793–796)
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Revolt of Abu'l-Saraya
East Africa
Bashmurian revolts
Anarchy at Samarra
Fifth Fitna
Kharijite Rebellion (866–896)
Zanj Rebellion
The Abbasid Revolution (Arabic: الثورة العباسية, romanized: ath-thawra al-ʿAbbāsiyya), also called the Movement of the Men of the Black Raiment (حركة رجال الثياب السوداءḥaraka rijāl ath-thiyāb as-sawdāʾ),[2] was the overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE), the second of the four major Caliphates in Islamic history, by the third, the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1517 CE). Coming to power three decades after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and immediately after the Rashidun Caliphate, the Umayyads were an Arab empire ruling over a population which was overwhelmingly non-Arab. Non-Arabs were treated as second-class citizens regardless of whether or not they converted to Islam, and this discontent cutting across faiths and ethnicities ultimately led to the Umayyads' overthrow.[3] The Abbasid family claimed descent from al-Abbas, an uncle of Muhammad.
The revolution essentially marked the end of the Arab exclusive Islamic Caliphate and the beginning of a more inclusive, multiethnic state in the Middle East.[4] Remembered as one of the most well-organized revolutions during its period in history, it reoriented the focus of the Muslim world to the east.[5]
^"The Abbasids had been aided in their ascent by the Shia, with whom they had a common cause in revolt." Confounding Powers – Anarchy and International Society from the Assassins to Al Qaeda, Cambridge University Press, 2016, p. 72. [ISBN missing]
^Frye, R. N.; Fisher, William Bayne; Frye, Richard Nelson; Avery, Peter; Boyle, John Andrew; Gershevitch, Ilya; Jackson, Peter (1975). The Cambridge History of Iran. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521200936.
^Paul Rivlin, Arab Economies in the Twenty-First Century, p. 86. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780521895002
^Saïd Amir Arjomand, "Abd Allah Ibn al-Muqaffa and the Abbasid Revolution". Iranian Studies, vol. 27, Nos. 1–4. London: Routledge, 1994.
^Hala Mundhir Fattah, A Brief History of Iraq, p. 77. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009. ISBN 9780816057672
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