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Article: Background History: The 8th - 20th Century A.D.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map
- Article date:
- November 17, 2003
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In keeping with Shiite tradition, Zain Al Abidin named his son Mohammed Al Baqir as his spiritual heir before his death in 712. Baqir continued with the accommodating approach towards the Ummayyads taken by his father, but those Shiites displeased with this approach supported Zaid Ibn Ali, the younger brother of Zain Al Abidin. A revolt was begun in 740 under Zaid's inspiration, but it was suppressed. Later, in 743, Zaid's son Yahya Ibn Zaid rebelled in the Khurasan, the eastern most province of the prevailing Islamic empire, but that effort was defeated as well.
During the latter part of the 8th century there were a series of revolutions and bloody wars ...