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REL C357 - Islam > People > Flashcards

People Flashcards

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Abu-Bakr

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First Caliph

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Ali Ibn Abi Talib

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Expected by Hashimites to be first Caliph
Pronounced fourth Caliph of Islam
killed by a poisoned sword
Believed by Alawis/Nusayris

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Omar Bin al-Khattab

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appointed by Abu Bakr as second Caliph

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Uthman b. Affan

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Third Caliph, ruled for 12 years

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Mu’awiyah

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Governer of Syria
Opposed Ali as caliph
Founder of the Umayyad Dynasty
Fifth Caliph
Moved the capital to Damascus
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Yazid

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Sixth Caliph
Son of Muawiyah
Ruled 680

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Husayn b. Ali

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Son of Ali
opposed the son of Muawiyah
Beheaded in battle against Yazid at Karbala

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Al-Mansur

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Second Caliph and ‘real founder’ of Abbasid state

Built Baghdad as capital

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Mongol general Hulagu

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invaded and ended Abbasid empire

killed last Abbasid Caliph

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Salah al-Din

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Muslim warrior who overthrew Fatimid caliphate in Egypt

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Agha Kahn

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Name for the leader of the Nizari sect of Islam

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Musa al_Kazim

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believed by twelver shi’ites to be the rightful 7th Imam

Jafar’s younger son

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Muhammed b. al-Hasan

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a boy

Believed by the twelvers to be the twelfth Imam

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Abu Hamid Muhammed AL GHAZALI

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primary personality in the crystalization of sufism(1091)

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Al Ghazali

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Asharite

belived in predestination

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Al-Farabi

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Muslim Philosopher

believed society would reach full potential if ruled by a prophet philosopher

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Razi

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Platonist
One of the first two major philosophers of Islam
rejected the Quaranic view of creation out of nothing
considered a heretic

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Al-Kindi

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One of the first two major philosophers of Islam

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Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab

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Dounded the Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia in the 1700s

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Mustafa Kamal Ata-Turk

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led the revolution that resulted in the modern turkish republic

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Hasan al-Banna

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Founded Muslim Brotherhood of Muslim Brothers, 1929, egypt

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Nasser

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Young Officer
led 1952 Egyptian socialist revolution
banned the Brotherhood

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Khomeini

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Ayatollah who led Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979

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Elijah Muhammad

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Founded nation of Islam in America

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