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Certain Abbasid caliphs famously tried to suppress and kill recalcitrant clerics. Was there ever any other attempt by Islamic Caliphs or Sultans to break the power of the 'ulema or Islamic clergy?

by /u/Seswatha in /r/AskHistorians

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