Abu Muslim
Abbasid general
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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.
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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 un…
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