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... that Ibrahim al-Imam secretly orchestrated the
Abbasid Revolution that toppled the
Umayyad Caliphate, but was captured and died in prison shortly before the Abbasid armies defeated the Umayyads? Source: Summary of the article; cf. Omar 1971: "Upon Ibrahim's orders, the rising was launched publicly on 15 Ramadan 129/30 May 747. ...It was at that very moment when the Abbasid cause was prospering and advancing westwards that Ibrahim was arrested in al-Humayma...He was imprisoned in Harran, where he died in Muharram 132/August 749"