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The Caliphs — 90 episodes
Episode 90: Conclusions
Episode 89: Al Muttaqi, al Mustakfi, and al Muti’
Episode 88: Amir al umara’
Episode 87: Al Radi the irrelevant
Episode 86: Al Qaher’s folly
Episode 85: Third time’s the charm
Episode 84: General Mu’nis
Thoughts on Palestine
Episode 83: War of the wazirs
Episode 82: The rise of al Muqtadir
Episode 81: Splintering of the Shi’a
Episode 80: Al Muktafi
Episode 79: Fortune favors the brute
Episode 78: Al Mu’tadid
Episode 77: His brother’s keeper
Episode 76: Homegrown competition
Episode 75: Masters of Khurasan
Episode 74: The false prophet of Basra
Episode 73: Al Mu’tamid and the birth of a new order
Episode 72: Al Muhtadi and the settling of the dust
Episode 71: Al Mu’tazz, kill or be killed
Episode 70: Proxy fitna
Episode 69: Al Musta’in, puppet in chief
Episode 68: Al Muntasir and the beginning of the end
Episode 67: Breaking the camel’s back
Episode 66: Sunni side up
Episode 65: Al Mutawakkil
Episode 64: Executive terminations
Episode 63: Al Watheq
Episode 62: Princely ambitions
Episode 61: Al Mu’tasim
Episode 60: Greatness in retrospect
Episode 59: Faith and philosophy
Episode 58: Al Ma’mun
Episode 57: Interregnum
Episode 56: The great fitna
Episode 55: Al Amin
Episode 54: Legacy issues
Episode 53: Downfall of the Baramika
Episode 52: Power struggle
Episode 51: Holy warrior
Episode 50: Al Rashid
Episode 49: Al Hadi
Episode 48: Al Mahdi
Episode 47: The city of peace
Episode 46: Shifting east
Episode 45: Hashemite versus Hashemite
Episode 44: The ghost of Abu Muslim
Episode 43: Al Mansur
Episode 42: The triumphant
Episode 41: Al Saffah
Episode 40: The Abbasid revolution
Episode 39: Nasr ibn Sayyar
Episode 38: The third fitna
Episode 37: Walid bin Yazid
Episode 36: Hisham and the Arabs
Episode 35: Turgesh troubles
Episode 34: Hard mode
Episode 33: Hisham bin Abdulmalik
Episode 32: Yazid bin Abdulmalik
Episode 31: Omar bin Abdulaziz
Episode 30: Suleiman bin Abdulmalik
Episode 29: Unforced error
Episode 28: Walid bin Abdulmalik
Episode 27: Imperial caliphate
Episode 26: The East
Episode 25: Abdulmalik bin Marwan
Episode 24: How the best man won
Episode 23: The chosen one
Episode 22: The second fitna
Episode 21: Yazid bin Mu’awiya
Episode 20: Succeeding the dynast
Episode 19: Umayyad glory
Episode 18: Mu’awiya bin Abi Sufyan
Episode 17: The end of an era
Episode 16: Reconquering the umma
Episode 15: Kharijites and arbitrations
Episode 14: The first fitna
Episode 13: The battle of the camel
Episode 12: Ali bin Abi Talib
Episode 11: Othman’s end
Episode 10: Othman in the public eye
Episode 9: Othman bin Affan
Episode 8: Quraysh’s finest
Episode 7: Changing to stay the same
Episode 6: Omar ibn il Khattab
Episode 5: Wasteful wars
Episode 4: Abu Bakr
Episode 3: The birth of a caliphate
Episode 2: Revelation and unity