The Abbasid revolution was partly instigated by the policies of the Umayyad Caliphate which put Arabs over all other Muslims, so why did al-Andalus with its mostly non-Arab population welcome an Umayyad as Emir instead of supporting the Abbasids?
by /u/Actaevs in /r/AskHistorians
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