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4. A Strangely Exceptional Relationship

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Muawiyah wasn’t a normal individual and everyone knew it. We can see how he had a huge impact on the history of Islam through different stories he was directly or indirectly involved in. One of the mistakes was that he was given relative power during the caliphate of the second caliph. Without a doubt, this relative power is what slowly evolved into ultimate uncontested power.

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