This study aims at arising the political role of the Alawisin the reign of the Caliph, Haroon AL-Rasheed170-193H./786-808AD, through the getting out of some of the Alawis, who escaped after the battle of the Trap of Al-Hadi Time(FakhZammanelHadi)(169H.-170/785-786AD). The study shows the policy followed by AL-Rasheed with them and how he could attract some of then got rid of them, inspite of showing the policy of softness and peacefulness with them. The study deduced the extent of AL-Rasheed’s worldly wisdom in eliminating their political attempts to rebel against the state and announce the Caliphate, which did not reach the degree of the revolution, as happened in the reign of his ancestorsAL-Rasheed traced some of the Alawis, especially Mousa AL-Kathem, whom the study cleared that he did not have a political role as far as his followers used to turn about him, for his cognition and asceticism, though AL-Rasheed got rid of him, yet not he gets developed.
Source: World Journal of Islamic History and Civilization
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