Destiny Disrupted

76 Atlantic Ocean The Umayyad Empire DESTINY DISRUPTED Indian Ocean governor of Basra: "You allow kinship to prevail and put rel ...

EMPIRE OF THE UMAYYADS 77 Under the Umayyads, it wasn't just Arab-inspired commercial energy that permeated the Muslim world but ...

78 DESTINY DISRUPTED When I say Islamification, I mean that growing numbers of people in territories ruled by the khalifa abando ...

The Abbasid Age 120-350AH 737-961 CE T HE DESCENDANTS OF Yazid ruled for a number of generations. They wove a skein of entrenche ...

80 DESTINY DISRUPTED All this came at a price however, the usual price of stability, which en- sures that whatever is the case o ...

THE ABBASID AGE 81 ety and to keep them layered: pure-blooded Arab Muslims at the top; below them, Muslims with one Arab and one ...

82 DESTINY DISRUPTED As time went on, however, Kharijites fizzled out because they were such extreme purists at a time when more ...

THE ABBASID AGE 83 son of a Muslim father, father of a Muslim son." As you can see, this man was at pains to assert that he had ...

84 DESTINY DISRUPTED imagine that such a figure was waiting in the wings, anonymous for the moment only for security reasons. Da ...

THE ABBASID AGE 85 ==-Umayyad Army Abu Muslim and the Abbasid Revolution turned out, consider himself a puppet. Over the years, ...

86 DESTINY DISRUPTED their feet, but too late: the doors had all been locked. The soldiers pro- ceeded to club the Umayyads to d ...

THE ABBASID AGE 87 from the Umayyads, but in this supposition you would be dead wrong. The Abbasids quickly embraced the orthodo ...

88 DESTINY DISRUPTED It took five years to build the Round City. Some one hundred thousand designers, craftspeople, and laborers ...

THE ABBASID AGE 89 magic lamp hark back to the reign of the fourth and most famous Abbasid khalifa, Haroun al-Rashid, portrayed ...

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Scholars, Philosophers, and Sufis 10-505 AH 632-1111 CE S o FAR r HAVE been recounting political events at the highest levels as ...

92 DESTINY DISRUPTED zakat, to give a certain percentage of one's wealth to the poor each year; sawm (or roza), to fast &om ...

SCHOLARS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SUFIS 93 But the moment Mohammed died, Muslims had to ask themselves, "What exactly are we supposed ...

94 DESTINY DISRUPTED swallow up the pieces and who was to say the great revelation would not then vanish as if it had never been ...

SCHOLARS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SUFIS 95 times, thousands of remembered statements, quotations, and decisions of Mohammed's were flo ...