Mihna
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thumb|right|300px|Map of the Mihna and events associated with itThe Mihna () was a period of religious persecution instituted by the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun in 833 in which Sunni scholars were punished, imprisoned, or even killed unless they conformed to Mu'tazilite doctrine. The policy lasted for eighteen years (833–851) as it continued through the reigns of al-Ma'mun's immediate successors, al-Mu'tasim and al-Wathiq, and four years of al-Mutawakkil who reversed it in 851.
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It sits within the topics 830s in the Abbasid Caliphate, 840s in the Abbasid Caliphate and 850s in the Abbasid Caliphate.
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Participant
- al-Maʾmun
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- start time
- 0833-00-00
- end time
- 0851-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Under al-Ma'mun
- Events and explanations
- Under al-Mu'tasim
- Aftermath
- References
- Sources
thumb|right|300px|Map of the Mihna and events associated with itThe Mihna () was a period of religious persecution instituted by the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun in 833 in which Sunni scholars were punished, imprisoned, or even killed unless they conformed to Mu'tazilite doctrine. The policy lasted for eighteen years (833–851) as it continued through the reigns of al-Ma'mun's immediate successors, al-Mu'tasim and al-Wathiq, and four years of al-Mutawakkil who reversed it in 851.
The abolition of Mihna is significant both as the end of the Abbasid Caliph's pretension to decide matters of religious orthodoxy, and as one of the few instances of religious persecution among fellow Muslims in Medieval Islam.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mihna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.