The Abbasids transformed Islam from a Arab centric tribal faith into
a world system that provided unified many ancient far flung empires. This
transformation necessitate the blending of Arab customs with the political
structures necessary to efficiently rule a global empire. Governed by the
caliph who ruled out of the cosmopolitan city of Baghdad. The caliph's
power passed along hereditary lines back to the death of the Prophet
Mohammed. The caliph was not the spiritual leader of the Islamic faith,
the authority of there rule stemmed from the legitimacy of there ancestry.
Under Abbasids rule generated a remarkably multicultural society, as
Jewish and Christian subjects while infidels were protected under sharia
law.
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