Under Othman, the third Caliph who belonged to the aristocratic Ummayid branch of Mohammed's tribe Quraysh, the conquests ceased briefly. |
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She first appeared in the historical annals in 1239 as a mamlukah inmate of Turkish or Armenian origins in the Caliph al-Musta'sim's harem. |
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The Fatimid caliphs belonged to the Shia tradition, which claimed descent from the fourth Caliph, Ali, and his wife Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet. |
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However, the historians and traditionists are unanimous that the official codex was adopted under the third Caliph Uthman. |
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The Caliph sent several small armadas to defeat Dahar but these were all soundly defeated. |
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It was therefore possible for Feisal to be both the Caliph to the Sunnis and the true Imam to the Shi'ites. |
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She remembered the war, which was thrust upon her father, King Dahir, just because some pirates had hijacked a ship belonging to the Caliph. |
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These have been assigned to the reign of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustansir based on comparisons with other media such as textiles. |
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At last he went to the palace one day, and, being informed that the Caliph was making his ablutions prior to his prayers, sat down in an antechamber. |
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A Mongol army from Central Asia laid siege to Baghdad in 1401, calling on the Caliph to surrender and promising that if he did so, the city would be spared. |
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The example of Caliph Abdul Aziz from Umayyad dynasty is well known. |
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Ali's second son, Hussein, then took over from his brother Hassan and broke with the Omayyad Caliph. |
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In a 1971 BBC presentation of James Elroy Flecker's Hassan, Gielgud played the Caliph to Richardson's Hassan. |
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Missionaries stay with their careers as appointed by the Caliph for the rest of their lives, as per their commitment to the community. |
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Following Muhammad's death in 632, Abu Bakr became leader of the Muslims as the first Caliph. |
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One such story narrates that the Fatimid Caliph al Hakim Bi-Amr Illah wanted to light the streets of Cairo during Ramadan nights. |
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The Ottoman sultans also claimed the title of Caliph starting with Murad I, who transformed the Ottoman state into a transcontinental empire. |
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The mosque was built by the Caliph Umar bin Abdulaziz when he was prince of Madinah and renewed during the Abbassid and Ottoman eras. |
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Ahmed Ibn Tuloun had been sent to rule Cairo in the ninth century by the Abbassid Caliph in Baghdad. |
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The piece records the carver who made it in the time of Caliph al-Zahir. |
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In this class, he used to give lectures on people such as Buddha, Confucius, St Augustine, Caliph Omar, Mahatma Gandhi, Einstein, and Abraham Lincoln and to tell moral stories related to our civilisational heritage. |
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Congregants, he said, should nominate a global body to elect a new Caliph, replacing the Ottoman ruler whose downfall Europe had engineered. Ideologues still hanker after the revival of a pan-Islamic empire. |
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Indeed, there is a famous episode in history which relates that one day the great Caliph asked his dinner guests to put forward their definition of happiness. |
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The Almohade Caliph Abdelmoumin, Ibn Ali, who came from Morocco to the assistance of Ifriqiyah, drove the Normans out in 1160 and restored the unity of the Maghreb. |
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A second version states that the treasure was sent from Orán by the Caliph Texufín Ben Alí, king of the Almoravids, who arrived on the coast, fleeing from an uprising in which he surely would have perished. |
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This mihrab was commissioned by the Caliph's wife for the shrine of Sayyida Ruqayya, the daughter of the Fourth Righteous Caliph, 'Ali ibn Abi Talib. |
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Merchants from the ancient Marine Republic of Amalfi obtained from the Caliph of Egypt the authorisation to build a church, convent and hospital in Jerusalem, to care for pilgrims of any religious faith or race. |
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In Najaf, he visited the mausoleum of Ali, the Fourth Caliph. |
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The Almohad Caliph Abu Yakub had a great love for collecting books. |
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The Caliph was reinforced with Syrian auxiliaries and the Bedouins. |
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As late as the 6th century the Eastern Roman empire and Caliph Umar ibn Khattab were issuing decrees against conversion to Judaism, implying that this was still occurring. |
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After the recorded peace treaty between with Hassan ibn Ali and the suppression of early Kharijites' disturbances, Muawiyah I acceded to the position of Caliph. |
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