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  • Jabir with his teacher, the sixth shi'ite imam, Jafar ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq, who lived between 700 and 765. Others say his teacher was another ...
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  • the sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam (996-1021). Born in 985, Abu ... was conducted for the 36-year-old caliph-imam; only his riding donkey and ...
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  • their heresy, and acknowledge the sinless Imam Mahdi. If they respond to your call, then they are your brothers; what they have will be yours ...
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  • Saladin, Salah ad-Din, or Salahuddin al Ayyubi (so-lah-hood-din al-aye-yu-be) (c. 1138 – March 4, 1193), was a twelfth century Kurdish Muslim ...
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  • culminated in the rebellion of Ibrahim the Imam, the fourth in descent from Abbas, who, supported by the province of Khorasan, achieved considerable ...
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  • of the Mu'tazili school of Kalam, founded by Imam Wasil ibn Ata, are often called the Mu'attili, because they are frequent users of the ta ...
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  • scholars from all over the Islamic World, including Imam Sahnun (776–854), and Asad ibn al-Furat (759-828). The Aghlabites built palaces, fortifications ...
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  • Caucasus, until Avar political and religious leader Imam Shamil (1797-1871) was captured in 1864. In the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), Dagestan and Chechnya ...
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  • ever received the award, SS Obersturmführer Imam Halim Malkoč, was granted the Iron Cross (Second Class) in October 1943 for his role in suppressing ...
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  • years by gaining independence from the ruling imam. In an attempt to secure the trade route to India, the British occupied the port of Aden, overlooking ...
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  • Imam Shamil (1797-1871), an Avar political and religious leader of ... A descendant of the legendary rebel leader Imam Shamil, Israilov had been ...
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  • 75 years. Rulers of the first Saudi state were: Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud (1726 –1765), Imam Abdul Aziz Ibn Mohammed Ibn Saud (1765 – 1803), Imam Saud ...
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  • the community, and by a "teungku imam," a religious leader. In each gampong there is a building called a "meunasah," which ...
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  • here. The most prominent Islamic scholar known as Imam al-Bukhari, who gathered most authentic sayings (hadiths) of Prophet Muhammad, was born in this ...
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  • of Cairo was founded in the year 969 by the Fatimid Imam-Caliphs who were ancestors of the Aga Khan. [http://www.akdn.org/press-release/aga-khan ...
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  • * The Telyashayakh Mosque (Khast Imam Mosque), which contains the Uthman Qur'an, considered to be the oldest extant Qur'an in the world ...
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  • # Uthman (or Usman) dan Fodio, 1804 – 1817 (used the title Imam, and sarkin musulmin, possible caliph but usually listed as the first Sultan). ...
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  • 039;fari" in honor of the sixth Shi'a imam Ja'far al-Sadiq. He banned certain Shi'a practices which were particularly offensive to ...
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  • The Mughal Emperor Humayun ordered the crushing by elephant of an imam he mistakenly believed to be critical of his reign. Abraham Eraly, Mughal ...
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  • also had to declare that he was a just ruler, imam-i-'adil (Qureshi, 62). However, in practice Akbar was not qualified to act as an Islamic judge ...
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