Early during the Abbasid caliphate, in 756, this region broke away into a semi-autonomous emirate:

These Turkic slave-soldiers helped depose a caliph, and brought an end to a flourishing period of Abbasid history:

In 755, the second Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur, killed the revolutionary leader who had helped bring him to power. This revolutionary leader’s name was:

In 833, this caliph began enforcing Mu’tazilism in the Abbasid empire.

An overarching, and often successful policy in early Abbasid history can be generally described as:

Khurasan was in the _________ of the early Abbasid empire:

The Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid ruled from 786-809. Among the most things he did was partnering with:

In an 801 embassy to the Carolingians, the Abbasid dynasty famously sent Charlemagne:

In the second half of the 700s, this position became very important in the Abbasid empire:

The second Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur, founded which city in 762?:

Both the revolutionary leader Abu Muslim, as well as the later caliph al-Ma’mun, spent much of their careers ruling in:

These Islamic rationalists taught the doctrine of Qur’anic createdness:

Toward the end of the period we studied in this program (specifically, from 833-842), the political center of the Abbasid empire moved upriver from Baghdad to:

The Fourth Fitna eventually turned into a general conflict between:

The Abbasids take their name from:

Around 812, Ifriqiya (central north Africa) did what?

Which of the following did the caliph al-Ma’mun NOT do during his reign of 813-833?

The Fourth Fitna was fought between al-Amin and al-Ma’mun, the sons of the fifth Abbasid caliph, whose name was:

Generally, during the period we considered in this program, (750-661), what happened between the Abbasid and Byzantine empires?

Select True or False in regards to the following statement. “The early Abbasid period is generally understood as the beginning of the Islamic Golden Age.”