The first Islamic civil war turned on the legitimacy of regicide

Evidence

Perhaps the most powerful and persistent of Western political ideas in the region has been that of revolution. The history of the Islamic Middle East, like that of other societies, offers many examples of the overthrow of governments by rebellion or conspiracy. There is also an old Islamic tradition of challenge to the social and political order by leaders who believed that it was their sacred duty to dethrone tyranny and install justice in its place. … But the notion of revolution, as developed in sixteenth-century Holland, seventeenth-century England, and eighteenth-century America and France, was alien and new. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1114 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The concept of revolution as legitimacy was alien to Islamic tradition — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1114; Legitimacy in premodern Islam required moral authority, not military might; The Shariʿa institutionalized distrust of rulers and favored commoners — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 164

Broader Connections

• Legitimacy in premodern Islam required moral authority, not military might #complicates (0.80)
• The concept of revolution as legitimacy was alien to Islamic tradition #complicates (0.75) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1114