People Flashcards
Abu-Bakr
First Caliph
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Expected by Hashimites to be first Caliph
Pronounced fourth Caliph of Islam
killed by a poisoned sword
Believed by Alawis/Nusayris
Omar Bin al-Khattab
appointed by Abu Bakr as second Caliph
Uthman b. Affan
Third Caliph, ruled for 12 years
Mu’awiyah
Governer of Syria Opposed Ali as caliph Founder of the Umayyad Dynasty Fifth Caliph Moved the capital to Damascus
Yazid
Sixth Caliph
Son of Muawiyah
Ruled 680
Husayn b. Ali
Son of Ali
opposed the son of Muawiyah
Beheaded in battle against Yazid at Karbala
Al-Mansur
Second Caliph and ‘real founder’ of Abbasid state
Built Baghdad as capital
Mongol general Hulagu
invaded and ended Abbasid empire
killed last Abbasid Caliph
Salah al-Din
Muslim warrior who overthrew Fatimid caliphate in Egypt
Agha Kahn
Name for the leader of the Nizari sect of Islam
Musa al_Kazim
believed by twelver shi’ites to be the rightful 7th Imam
Jafar’s younger son
Muhammed b. al-Hasan
a boy
Believed by the twelvers to be the twelfth Imam
Abu Hamid Muhammed AL GHAZALI
primary personality in the crystalization of sufism(1091)
Al Ghazali
Asharite
belived in predestination
Al-Farabi
Muslim Philosopher
believed society would reach full potential if ruled by a prophet philosopher
Razi
Platonist
One of the first two major philosophers of Islam
rejected the Quaranic view of creation out of nothing
considered a heretic
Al-Kindi
One of the first two major philosophers of Islam
Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab
Dounded the Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia in the 1700s
Mustafa Kamal Ata-Turk
led the revolution that resulted in the modern turkish republic
Hasan al-Banna
Founded Muslim Brotherhood of Muslim Brothers, 1929, egypt
Nasser
Young Officer
led 1952 Egyptian socialist revolution
banned the Brotherhood
Khomeini
Ayatollah who led Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979
Elijah Muhammad
Founded nation of Islam in America
