AHC & WI: Abbasids Resurgent

What if, and how would it happen (and why), for the Abbasids to have a second golden age? Or at least a Silver Age, allowing them to be in slightly better shape as a polity and as a society when the Mongolians move into the area (or would this drive the Mongolians off, as they see India as being the weaker path to take from Persia/Central Asia?)

Short-term effects; ?
Long-term effects; possibly more scientific, more 'advanced' species?
 
Keep the Turkish mercenaries out of the civil war between Amin and Ma'mun, even better have the civil war end much more quickly (or abort it somehow). That war began two things:

1) Turkish mercs that eventually became a praetorian guard of sorts but didn't have the legitimacy to keep the empire together. In fact the presence of the Turks forced the move to Samarra by Mu'tasim which was all kinds of wasteful and exacerbated the decline of Baghdad which began with...

2) Ma'mun's siege of Baghdad. A LOT of the irrigation projects and canals in the region were destroyed or blocked by both sides to starve Baghdad or to deny the supplies to the besiegers and were only sluggishly repaired at all for reasons including 1. If you can somehow remove the siege, the area will stay more fertile and agriculturally productive enabling whoever wins to have a larger power-base.

So keeping the Caliph from hiding from his people, keep the Turks from becoming a praetorian guard, and keep Iraq agriculturally stronger and it could very well result in Abbasid authority being both stronger and larger territorially. How much I don't know. It's not like this is going to stop a Fatimid-like uprising or the Umayyads in Cordoba. This is also one of the reasons the Byzzies were able to go on the offensive around this time making things worse.

ED: A different outcome here might also keep Tahir from declaring independence for Persia. In OTL he knew Ma'mun owed him big time and that Ma'mun was also militarily exhausted. So the breaking away of Persia that begins with him might be postponed a generation.
 
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