The Abbasid revolution explained, how a secret movement overthrew the Umayyads and reshaped the Islamic world
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The Abbasid revolution explained, how a secret movement overthrew the Umayyads and reshaped the Islamic world
In the eighth century, a vast empire built by conquest fractured under its own divisions, only to be quietly seized by a revolutionary movement decades in the making. This episode traces how the Abbasids toppled the Umayyads, shifted power eastward, and laid the foundations for Baghdad and a new global age of culture, trade, and empire.
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