Al-Mansur has Abu Muslim killed
755 · Event
Caliph al-Mansur lures Abu Muslim, the general who won the revolution and who was too powerful to tolerate, to his court and has him murdered.
On these timelines: Persia and Iran, Islam, The Islamic Golden Age, Master, Major Religions
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