The Anarchy at Samarra & The End of Abbasid Power | 861CE - 870CE | Abbasid Caliphate #07

Come, let us sit on the ground around the fire and tell tales of the fall of once-mighty empires. It started when al-Mu’tasim (خلیفہ المعتصم), son of Harun al-Rashid, let the Turks into al-Mansur’s Baghdad. Then, he abandoned the city his brothers, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had ruled. Those Turks wrapped themselves around the caliphate, like a snake around a tree. When al-Mutawakkil (خلیفہ المتوکل) tried to rid of them, he missed by one step and that step cost him his life. The blood of a caliph was on the blade of the Turks. A new era had begun, one where the caliph had to become a puppet with its strings in the hands of the Turks or else those strings would find their way around the caliph’s neck. It was high noon in Samarra.
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