Mawali
Mawali is the name for people all over the Islamic
Empire who were not Arab but
had converted to Islam. According
to the Koran, anyone who converted
to Islam was supposed to be considered the same as anyone else. All
Muslims were sisters and brothers, and Arabs weren’t better than
Syrians or Egyptians or
Persians. Black or white, skin color also made no difference. And nobody
who followed Islam, even a mawali, was supposed to pay any taxes.
But under the Umayyad dynasty,
the Arabs didn't like this. They had racist ideas that the only good
people were Arabs. They didn't like the mawalis.
It was partly because of this that the mawalis rebelled against the Umayyad rulers and put in a new dynasty, the Abbasids, that promised to treat the mawalis fairly, in accordance with Islam.
It was partly because of this that the mawalis rebelled against the Umayyad rulers and put in a new dynasty, the Abbasids, that promised to treat the mawalis fairly, in accordance with Islam.
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