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Who did Abu Muslim establish as caliph of Islam?

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In 749 he established Abu al-Abbas 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 and treacherously murdered him.

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