RELIGST 2Q03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Baptism Of Jesus, Intime, Margarita Mamun
5 Dec 2013
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Persian: mamun- eastern side, ameen- western side. They had a war/fight; mamun killed his brother: mamun. Established the house of wisdom in bagdad. Greek philosophy was translated to arabic in. There was a flowering of intellectual sciences. He also wanted to appease the shia"s. So he asked the 8th shia imam; lived in medina. Mamun was living in merv which is in north east imam. Ali-al rida- was asked to be is successor; and he refused, he was forced so the shia"s would be on his side later the sunni"s. Ali-al-ridda was poisoned- shia claim that he was poisoned by mamun. Sunni"s went agains mamun; because they did not want a shia leader. Mamun continued to live in bagdad till he died in. He was succeeded by mu"tasim who was mamun"s brother: mu"tasim. The caliph changed from bagdad to samarra in iraq; north of bagdad in the sunni triangle where the majority live it had the largest mosque- mina red.
