The center of the Islamic world was shifting eastward after the Abbasid Revolution. No other cities were hospitable to the Arabs, so they needed to build their own. The Abbasids wanted to return the capital of their empire to Arabia. The Byzantines recaptured the old capital city of Damascus.

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