vocab the ottoman empire

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Ottoman empire

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a former Turkish empire that was founded about 1300 by Osman and reached its greatest territorial extent under Suleiman in the 16th century; collapsed after World War I. Capital: Constantinople. Expand. Also called Turkish Empire.

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Jarisarries

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a member of the Turkish infantry forming the Sultan’s guard between the 14th and 19th centuries.

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Sultan

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a Muslim sovereign.

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Sultanate

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a state or country that is ruled by a sultan. : the position of a sultan or the period of time when a sultan rules.

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Harem

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(in former times) the separate part of a Muslim household reserved for wives, concubines, and female servants.

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Aurangzeb

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Aurangzeb was a bigoted Muhammadan, and his accession to the throne threatened to have serious consequences for Mullah Shah. Mystics and Saints of Islam Claud Field. In 1686 the city of Bijapur was taken by Aurangzeb in person, and in the following year Golconda also fell

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Shah

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a title of the former monarch of Iran.

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Maratha Kingdom

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was an Indian power that existed from 1674 to 1818 and ruled over much of the Indian sub-continent. The Marathas are credited to a large extent for ending the Mughal rule in India.

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Timur the Lame

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historically known as Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia.

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Mehmet the conqueror

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was an Ottoman sultan who ruled first for a short time from August 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to May 1481.

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Emperor Akbar

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was Mughal Emperor from 1556 until his death. He was the third and one of the greatest rulers of the Mughal Dynasty in India.

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Nur Jahan

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Nur Jahan born Mehr-un-Nissa, was the twentieth but most beloved, and therefore most important consort of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.

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Delhi

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a walled city on the River Jumna in north central India, which was made the capital of the Mogul empire in 1638 by Shah Jahan (1592–1666).

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Sufism

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Sufism or Tasawwuf, is defined as the inner mystical dimension of Islam. Practitioners of Sufism (Tasawwuf), referred to as Sufis, often belong to different ṭuruq or “orders”—congregations formed around a grand master referred to as a Mawla who maintains a direct chain of teachers back to the Prophet Muhammad.

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Sikishm

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Sikhism, or Sikhi, is a monotheistic religion that originated in the Punjab region of South Asia (subcontinental India) during the 15th century.

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Taj Mahal

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is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra.

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Safavid

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The Safavid dynasty was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Iran, often considered the beginning of modern Iranian history. The Safavid shahs ruled over one of the so-called gunpowder empires

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Ismail Abbas

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Safidon

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Safidon is a city and a municipal committee in Jind district in the Indian state of Haryana.

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suleyman

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Suleiman I, commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and “Kanuni” in his realm, was the tenth and longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to his death in 1566

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esmail

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Kizilbash

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Qizilbash or Kizilbash (sometimes also Qezelbash or Qazilbash) is the label given to a wide variety of Shi’i militant groups that flourished in Azerbaijan, Anatolia and Kurdistan from the late 13th century onwards, some of which contributed to the foundation of the Safavid dynasty of Iran.

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raiputs

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Rajput is a member of the patrilineal clans of the Indian subcontinent. They rose to prominence from the late 6th century AD and continued to dominate many regions of central and northern India until the 20th century.

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Sikh Faith

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Sikhism, or Sikhi, is a monotheistic religion that originated in the Punjab region of South Asia (subcontinental India) during the 15th century.

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sufis

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mystical dimension.