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  2. 5 days ago · May 25, 2024. In the annals of medieval history, few figures loom as large as Saladin, the Muslim sultan who recaptured the holy city of Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187. Born into a Kurdish family in Tikrit, Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) in 1137, Saladin rose to become one of the most powerful and respected leaders of the Islamic world.

  3. 3 days ago · Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Muʿizzaddin Waddaulah is the 29th sultan of Brunei. Hassanal Bolkiah was the eldest son of Sultan Sir Haji Omar Ali Saifuddin. He was educated privately and later attended the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, England.

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  4. 2 days ago · The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (/ ə ˈ b æ s ɪ d, ˈ æ b ə s ɪ d /; Arabic: الْخِلَافَة الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, romanized: al-Khilāfa al-ʿAbbāsiyya) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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    1 day ago · An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". [1] The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) exercises political control over the peripheries. [2]

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    4 days ago · When Europeans began the colonization of the Muslim world, jihad was one of the first responses by local Muslims. Emir Abdelkader organized a jihad in Algeria against French domination, tapping into existing Sufi networks.

  7. 2 days ago · From 1206 to 1526, the Delhi Sultanate was an Islamic Empire that ruled over South Asia, mainly the Indian peninsula. It bears the name of Delhi, a former seat of the sultanate and an ancient city in Northern India. According to historians, the Delhi Sultanate was split into five distinct dynastic periods. Five families exist:

  8. 5 days ago · First is the importance of ‘governmentality’ in administering empire – enumerating, classifying and regrouping conquered peoples, collecting taxes, mapping new territories, and creating imperial bureaucracies to carry out these functions. Second is the adaptability and ultimate reification of imperial projects. Within this fall a few sub-themes.

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