Al-Rashid And The Mecca Protocol Of 802: A Plan For Division Or Succession?

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In “Harun al- Rashid and the Mecca Protocol of 802: A Plan for Division or Succession?” The plan was to follow up on either Division or Succession to see which brought more to the table for Medieval Islamic Civilization. The crisis was over the civil war after the death of Harun al- Rashid in 809 but before he passed away he drafted a Mecca Protocol to nominate his sons al- Amin and al-ma mun to return the society back to the caliphate and divide the Abbasid state. Soon the division would presumably cease to exist, which brings up the argument that Harun al-Rashid establishes this territorial division of nominated his sons to screw up and now not exist or was it not his fault. The Civil War between al-Amin and al-Ma mun arose dramatically …show more content…

Al-Amin had a reputation of not being loyal and his brother al-Ma mun started to suspect it and was losing his trust because al-Amin wanted to rule the entire caliphate. Finally the protocol got together the two previous nominations into one succession plan that had al-Amin to be the first successor to the caliphate and al-Ma mun would be the second with full guarantee. The full guarantee meant that al-Amin could not remove his brother from the line of succession in any shape or form. The Mecca Protocol of 802 has now changed completely after the death of Harun al- Rashid. The Mecca Protocol consisted of two documents that signified the promise between one brother to the other brother that al-Amin would respect the territorial terms. First document declared that al-Amin would succeed his father al-Rashid as caliph and agree to give inviolable rights to al-Ma mun’s second succession, and agreeing to acknowledge al-Ma mun’s powers over the eastern provinces over military, political, and administrative sovereignty over Khurasan. The caliph’s protocol of 802 purpose was mainly to protect potential attempts of the first successor to depose the second successor, which in the past continue to be a problem in the Abbasid succession

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