Al-Ma'mun, the Inquisition and the Quest for Caliphal Authority

Al-Ma'mun, the Inquisition and the Quest for Caliphal AuthorityThe "inquisition" (Mihnah) unleashed by the seventh Abbasid caliph, 'Abdallah al Ma'mun (r. 813 833), has long attracted the attention of modern scholars of the intellectual, political, and religious history of the early Abbasid era. Historians have seen it as the key to a wide array of puzzles and problems in early Islamic history.

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