Abu Muslim
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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ABU MUSLIM a boo moos lim, c.728 755, Persian leader of the Abbasid revolution...as-Saffah, the head of the Abbasid family, as caliph of Islam. Abu Muslim became governor of Khorasan, but the caliph al- Mansur feared his power...