CHRISTIANScontinuation of the conflict between these factions than to any other
single factor. Because the Nestorian Church leaders and aristocratic
laymen insisted on acting towards their new rulers as they had towards
the Sasanians, they invited state intervention by involving the Islamic
government in their internal quarrels. This pattern appeared as early
as 640 at Nasibin; the problem was beginning to become serious again
by the reign of Mu'awiya; and by the end of the second civil war,
the Islamic government had been drawn into the internal affairs of
the Nestorian Church by deposing and enthroning catholicoi of its
choice and by withholding permission for the election of a catholicos.
Finally, after the advent of the 'Abbasis, the conflict between royal
nomination and canonical election was revived.