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Academic Bowl QS A.W
Medieval Islamic Dynasties
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rules as caliphs from Damascus from 661-750. They came into power in the civil war following the death of Uthman when Mu'awiyah Ibn Abu Sufyan defeated the forces of Ali Ibn Abi Talib after the latter's assassintaion. | Umayyad |
| reigned as caliphs from Baghdad from 750-1258, and later from Cario from 1261-1517. They rode to power on widespread disaffection with the Umayyads and the sense that a member of the Prophet's family was best qualified to lead the community. | Abbasid |
| were Isma'ili Shi'ite Imans who founded their state in North Africa in 909 under the caliph al-Mahdi | Fatimid |
| were a family of Ghuzz Turks who invaded the Middle East in the eleventh century and came to control the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad. | Seljuq |
| were Kurds who took control of Egypt under the Zengids. | Ayyubid |
| were slave soldiers of foreign origin who deposed the Ayyubids in 1250 | Mamluk |
| were Turks of uncertain origin who conquered the Balkans and the Middle East and brought the central Islamic lands into the European state system. | Ottoman |
| ruled most of India from the early 16th until the mid-18th century, and claimed descent from both Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. | Mughal |
| were founded by a Sunni Sufi (mystic) order under Shah Ismail, and ruled Iran from 1502 until 1736. | Safavid |
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