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administration, in contrast to their predecessors who had treated the caliphate as a personal empire. thus, the abbasids played an invaluable role in reinvigorating the islamic ideal that the whole of human life stands under divine guidance and that spiritual and temporal aspects must be integrated, not
supported by the province of khorasan, achieved considerable successes, but was captured in and died in prison (as some hold, assassinated). the quarrel was taken up by his brother abdallah, known by the name of abu al-'abbas as-saffah, who, after a decisive victory on the greater zab river in , finally crushed...
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