Politik Kepentingan : (Analisis Historis Kasus Ab? Muslim al-Khurasan? di Masa Daulah Umaiyah dan Abbasiyah)

Abstract

At the end of 2013 and beginning of 2014 we were presented the�spectacle of government for maintaining �political interests�, that was the arrest�of a number of politicians, and among them is the suspects in the Hambalang,�Anas Urbaningrum, and Antasari Azhari before, chairman of the Corruption�Eradication Commission (KPK). Two of these cases may be as a representative�example of the case that the same modus, are killing characters of politicion�for political interests. It turns out that these cases also occurred in early Muslim�history, even kill each other. One example was the case of Ab? Muslim alKhurasan?, one of the major meritorious and has a big hand in toppling Umaiyah�Daulah and established the Abbasid Daula. Initially Abu Muslim was appointed�by Ab? Abb?s a?-?affah, the first Caliph of the Daulah Abbasid, to become�governor of Khurasan, but was then killed by Abu Ja�far al-Mansur, 2nd Caliph�of Abbasids. This paper attempts to describe the case of Ab? Muslim alKhurasan?, a politician who was killed by his own at the beginning of the Daulah�Abbasid. This study addresses three problems. First, how the events that befall�Ab? Muslim al-Khurasan?. Secondly, why Ab? Muslim al-Khurasan? was killed.�Third, what is the relevance of studying and knowing murder of Ab? Muslim�al-Khurasan? to political life in Indonesia by contextualization.