16:00 Even though the Abbasid caliphate lost much of its power in the 11th century; the caliph in Bagdad still remained the leader of Islam. The Seljuks respected them as such. So Seljuks allied themselves with the Abbasids against shi's in the region.
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Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn al-Wāthiq (Arabic: أبو إسحاق محمد بن هارون الواثق; c. 833 – 21 June 870), better known by his regnal name al-Muhtadī bi-'llāh (Arabic: المهتدي بالله, "Guided by God"), was the Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from July 869 to June 870, during the "Anarchy at Samarra".
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Anatolia was a major focus of the Abbasids’ search for ancientGreek texts in the ninth century.
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