# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abu-muslim
# Generated: 2026-09-01T23:25:44.709Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abu-muslim"
name: "Abu Muslim"
slug: "abu-muslim"
description: "He was born a slave and died by order of the dynasty he'd installed. In between, Abu Muslim commanded the military campaign that ended a caliphate and replaced it with another — then became too dangerous to the men he'd made rulers."
tagline: "Abbasid general"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Abbasid_silver_dirham_in_the_name_of_abu_Muslim_struck_at_Marv_in_AH_132_(749-50)%2C_The_David_Collection%2C_Copenhagen_(36241672762).jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "718"
deathDate: "755"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.694363742010459
  historical:           23.39591333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Enslaved in Kufa sometime in the early eighth century, he was freed by Shi'ite activists tied to the Abbasid family, who saw his abilities and gave him a war name. In 747 he opened the revolt in Khorasan, took Merv, and led Abbasid forces west across Iran and into the Levant until Umayyad authority collapsed and a new caliphate rose in its place. As governor of Khorasan he became one of the most powerful figures in the early Abbasid state. That power made him a problem. The second caliph, al-Mansur, had him executed in 755 on a likely false charge of crypto-Zoroastrianism. His death set off unrest across Greater Iran, where for centuries afterward he was venerated as a martyr and quasi-religious figure.