The Fourth Fitna or Great Abbasid Civil War resulted from the conflict between the brothers al-Amin and al-Ma'mun over the succession to the throne of...
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Look up fitna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fitna or Fitnah may refer to: Fitna (word), an Arabic term meaning 'trial' or 'civil strife'; also used...
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Fitna (or fitnah, pl. fitan; Arabic: فتنة , فتن: "temptation, trial; sedition, civil strife, conflict") is an Arabic word with extensive connotations...
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Umayyad Caliphate (section First Fitna)
after the end of the First Fitna in 661. After Mu'awiya's death in 680, conflicts over the succession resulted in the Second Fitna, and power eventually fell...
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Al-Amin (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
Abū Mūsā Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Amīn (Arabic: أبو موسى محمد بن هارون الرشيد, romanized: Abū Mūsā Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd; April 787 – 24/25 September...
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The First Fitna was the first civil war in the Islamic community. It led to the overthrow of the Rashidun Caliphate and the establishment of the Umayyad...
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of Baghdad (812–813), during the Fourth Fitna in the Abbasid Caliphate Siege of Baghdad (865), during the Fifth Fitna in the Abbasid Caliphate Battle of...
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Ali al-Rida (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
and kept aloof from politics, similar to his predecessors, namely, the fourth through seventh Shia Imams. Al-Rida, known for his piety and learning, issued...
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Tahir ibn Husayn (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
Abbasid Caliphate. Specifically, he served under al-Ma'mun during the Fourth Fitna and led the armies that would defeat al-Amin, making al-Ma'mun the caliph...
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Zayd ibn Musa al-Kazim (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
Zayd ibn Mūsā ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (Arabic: زيد بن موسى بن جعفر بن محمد بن علي بن الحسين بن علي بن أبي...
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of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun. For his support of al-Ma'mun in the Fourth Fitna, he was granted the governance of Khorasan. The Tahirids, however, were...
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Hamdawayh ibn Ali ibn Isa ibn Mahan (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
Hamdawayh ibn Ali ibn Isa ibn Mahan (Arabic: حمدويه بن علي بن عيسى بن ماهان) was a ninth century military commander for the Abbasid Caliphate. He became...
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Yazid ibn Jarir al-Qasri (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
Yazid ibn Jarir ibn Yazid ibn Khalid ibn Abdallah al-Qasri (Arabic: يزيد بن جرير بن يزيد بن خالد بن عبد الله القسري) was a provincial governor for the...
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flourished, as many scholars fled the Abbasid caliphate due to the disastrous Fourth Fitna. The scholar Abbas ibn Firnas made an attempt to fly, though accounts...
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Muttalib ibn Abdallah ibn Malik (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
Muttalib ibn Abdallah ibn Malik al-Khuza'i (Arabic: مطلب بن عبدالله بن مالك الخزاعي) was a son of the Abbasid general and administrator Abdallah ibn Malik...
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Apogee al-Mahdi al-Hadi Harun al-Rashid Barmakids Sack of Heraclea al-Amin Fourth Fitna al-Ma'mun Graeco-Arabic translation movement Mu'tazilism and Mihna...
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– discuss] Fourth Fitna, 809–827, including the Abbasid civil wars and other regional conflicts Anarchy of the 12 Warlords, 944–968 Fitna of al-Andalus...
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Al-Fadl ibn Sahl (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
appointed Minister of Finance. Even though he emerged victorious during the Fourth Fitna, al-Ma'mun continued to face several revolts and a considerable resistance...
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the Fitnas, most notably the First Fitna (656–661), the Second Fitna (680–692), the Third Fitna (744–747), the Fourth Fitna (809–827), and the Fitna of...
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failed to respect the arrangements made for his brothers, leading to the Fourth Fitna. Al-Ma'mun's general Tahir ibn Husayn took Baghdad, executing Al-Amin...
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Apogee al-Mahdi al-Hadi Harun al-Rashid Barmakids Sack of Heraclea al-Amin Fourth Fitna al-Ma'mun Graeco-Arabic translation movement Mu'tazilism and Mihna...
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Ali ibn Abi Sa'id (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
Ali ibn Abi Sa'id, also known as Dhu'l-Qalamayn, was an early 9th-century Abbasid official and military commander in the service of Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun...
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Harthama ibn A'yan (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
Harthama ibn A'yan (Arabic: هرثمة بن أعين; died June 816) was a Khurasan-born general and governor of the early Abbasid Caliphate, serving under the caliphs...
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were not unheard of. In the 830s, Egypt plunged into turmoil during the Fourth Fitna and King Zacharias III of Makuria halted payment of the Baqt. When the...
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point nominated an Alid, Ali ibn Musa al-Rida, as his heir during the Fourth Fitna, this move was not followed up, and under Ma'mun's successors, the two...
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Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Kazim (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate in the Yemen in the aftermath of the Fourth Fitna. He later seized control of Mecca in ca. 817, and was subsequently recognized...
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Dawud ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Hashimi (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
remained as governor throughout the reign of al-Amin however due to the Fourth Fitna, Later switched his allegiance to the rival al-Ma'mun probably in 812...
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operation. 799 – Mashhad al-Kazimiyya built. 812-813 Siege of Baghdad, Fourth Fitna (Islamic Civil War) 814 – City captured by al-Ma'mun. 827 – Tomb of Zobeide...
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Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq (category People of the Fourth Fitna)
Zayd's body] was erected only on the orders of the Buyid wazīr al-Ṣāḥib". Fourth Fitna People claiming to be the Mahdi Descendants of Ali ibn Abi Talib An Introduction...
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Siege of Baghdad (812–813), during the Fourth Fitna (Islamic Civil War) Siege of Baghdad (865), during the Fifth Fitna Battle of Baghdad (946), Buyid–Hamdanid...
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