ABSTRACT
HAD MamCl.n moved at once upon Bagdad, the disorders Mamun at of the next few years would have been avoided. But he Merv. relied on Fazl bin Sahl, his vizier, and was content to leave to him the absolute and uncontrolled direction of the government, spending his own time in philosophical discussions with the savants and scholars who formed his court. Fazl on his side was anxious to keep the sovereign at Merv, where he was entirely under the ambitious minister's influence. No information regarding the real state of affairs in the west was allowed to reach the Caliph, and he was thus kept in complete ignorance of the events that were taking place in Irak and Syria. Shortly after Amin's death a partisan of the Ommeyades Disorders named Nasr 1 rose against Mamlln in Mesopotamia, and in Irak.and defied the Imperial troops for over five years. In Irak, ArabIa.
