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How Did a Secret Network Overthrow the Umayyad Caliphate? - Abu Muslim and the Black Banners of 747 | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the mid-740s, travelers carrying scraps of paper, memorized phrases, and collected coins moved through the roads of northeastern Iran. They entered rooms where men swore secret oaths of allegiance to someone they called only the acceptable one from the House of the Prophet. This was the da'wa, a clandestine network that would overturn an empire stretching from Iberia to India in less than a decade. This episode examines how the Abbasid family built a revolutionary infrastructure far…
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