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Dec 2021
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Episode 37: Walid bin Yazid

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It took Hisham two decades to undo the damage his half-brothers had wrought upon the umma with their careless administration. It took his successor Walid ibn il Yazid less than two years to wreck things beyond repair. While it was almost entirely his fault that things fell apart for his clan, he's not the one who opened pandora’s box, that was his cousin. Um ... Show More
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