Which of the following led al-Mansur to establish a new capital for the Abbasid empire at Baghdad?
A) the desire to reaffirm Mesopotamia's centrality and exalt the universalist ambitions of Islam
B) the destruction of Damascus in conflicts between the Abbasids and Umayyads
C) the desire to block expansion from the Iranian plateau
D) the lack of previous imperial capitals in the region
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