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1 day ago · Holding years. In 1212, the Almohad Caliph Muhammad 'al-Nasir' (1199–1214), the successor of al-Mansur, after an initially successful advance north, was defeated by an alliance of the three Christian kings of Castile, Aragón and Navarre at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in the Sierra Morena.
May 10, 2024 · On the night of October 26–27, 2019, Baghdadi killed himself by self-detonation as U.S. forces closed in on him in Idlib governorate, Syria. Special 67% offer for students! Finish the semester strong with Britannica. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; also called Islamic State in Iraq and ...
May 23, 2024 · Imam al-Hasan (as) was not only to assume the religious and spiritual position of the Imāmate, but he was also became the political Caliph of the time, even though it was only for a short while. This is because Imam Ali’s enemies did not simply stop at his death, but continued their animosity towards his family until the last one, the 12th ...
2 days ago · The caliph lost and was taken prisoner, and died in captivity in 1135, but conflicts continued with Al-Mustarshid's successors. [42] [111] Mas'ud briefly recaptured Baghdad in the Siege of Baghdad (1136) , forcing Caliph Al-Rashid Billah to abdicate, but the next Caliph Al-Muqtafi (1136-1160) managed to restore a high degree of independence and ...
6 days ago · Amid charges of corruption, ʿUthmān himself was also killed, in 656. Following his death, delegations of the earlier Meccan and later Medinan Muslims, as well as Muslims from key provinces in the by now quite large Muslim empire, asked ʿAlī to become the fourth caliph. He accepted and made Kūfah, in modern-day Iraq, his capital.
2 days ago · By chance, the heirs of the Muslim Caliph Hasan ibn Ali in what was once Islamic Manila, having embraced Christianity after the Spanish takeover, blended elements of Christianity with Islam. They passed through California, which was named after a Caliph, en route to Guerrero, Mexico.
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