The Abbasid discontentment is traced from the time of Uthman, when considerable opposition arose because the third caliph appointed family members as governors and other high ranking administrative positions. These disfavoring acts of nepotism continued when Muawiya, the first Ummayyad caliphate, allowed his incompetent son Yazid to ascend to power and effectively concentrated the Islamic rule amongst the Ummayyad clan, when the greater Islamic society believed there were more pious and appropriate individuals . Muawiya was also instrumental in the first fitna against Ali during which killed multiple prominent figures. Non- Arab converts also contested the increasing disparities amongst their status and the status of Arab Muslims under the
