Inquisition outside Baghdad


 The Inquisition (miḥna) of al-Maʾmūn (d. 218/833) was a serious attempt to establish the caliph as arbiter Islamic orthodoxy . It actively prosecuted by succeeding two caliphs, and finally abolished his nephew, al-Mutawakkil, in 237/852 most information we have about it far is how carried out Baghdad Various sources, mostly biographical, also tell us something its prosecution Basra, Kufa, Damascus, Isfahan, Old Cairo (Fustat), Qayrawan, surveyed here. These scattered data confirm that largely bringing emerging scholarly class under control They may indicate instituted not 218 but already 217/832-3.