Awesome ! that is a great idea . Thank you . May also email it to them to make sure there ' s a record . <| sep |> Essentially , you ' re saying that Africans cared more about religious dogma than their freedom . I ' m saying that the only scholarship on this event in English that paint the revolt as a slave revolt come from Orientalist writers . While Arab writers such as Dr . Talhami and Dr . Shaban argue that what occured in Basra at the time was not a slave revolt but a much larger revolt of the poor andor marginalised populations and that the revolt took on Shia themes . So I ' m not arguing that Africans cared more about religious dogma than their freedom . I ' m arguing , based on the works of both Dr . Talhami and Dr . Shaban , that this revolt included more than just Africans enslaved or otherwise and that it included a wide selection of peoples banding together under a single banner against perceived or real Abbasid oppression . PseudoHistory . Show your sources . It was a slave revolt . You ' re reaching . The lady doth protests too much , methinks . uJeanStuart