How Did The Abbasid Dynasty

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Task Three Part B The First Muslim Dynasty was the Umayyad Dynasty and it was followed by one of the most enduring Islamic Dynasties, The Abbasid Dynasty. The origin of Islam came from the Bedouin tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. Its founder, Muhammad, established a theocratic Muslim state as the number of his followers grew. Mohammad amassed a large number of followers and controlled the entire Arabian Peninsula by the time of his death. In the aftermath of the Prophet’s death, the Umayyad and Abbasid were two of the dynasties that expanded the new religion through the region by very different means and ideologies. The Umayyad caliphate expanded the geographic Islamic Empire to one of the largest in history by military campaigns. As the