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Undergraduate 3
12/15/2008

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1219 - 1222
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ghengis khan – campaign in sw asia – destroys transoxiana and east iran – merv stone by stone
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1295 - 1304
Definition
Ghazan – Il-khan – serious muslim – rational beauracracy and reforms taxation
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1316 - 1335
Definition
– Abu Sa’id – Il-Khan – “good khan” – devout muslim – fluent Persian and Arabic – rebuilt roads and cities
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1291
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Mamluks destroy crusader city of Aker all crusaders expelled from Holy Lands
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~1260
Definition
– Osman – ghazi (Turkish) amir outside bursa, important byz city – victorious – ancestor of ottomans
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1326-1362
Definition
Orhan – supposed descendent of Osman – captured Bursa, capitol – captures nicea and Nicomedia = easy path to Constantinople – rival byzantines ask him to fight for them – by 1361 conquers most Bulgaria, thrace in Europe
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1362 - 1389
Definition
Murat – strong, gets many Christian mercenaries (tolerant) – destroys serbs in Kosovo and dies on field
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1389 - 1402
Definition
Bayezit – thunderbolt – consolidates state – low taxes, tolerant, protection from highway robbers – tried to subdue other turks in Anatolia – devshirme – janisarrie corps of elite infantry men and administraters
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1370 - 1405
Definition
– Timur lang – emir of the turko-mongols – organized turks in transoxiana – capitol at samarqqand
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1385
Definition
– timur lang crushed il-khanate
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1402
Definition
battle at Ankara – timur lang surprise attacks bayezit and crushed
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1402 - 1403
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ottoman turks have no sultan, just many little Turkish princes – sons of bayezit fight for sultanate and mehmet I wins
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1413 - 1421
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Mehmet I – “the 2nd founder / the stabilizer” - restores order to ottoman empire – sultan from adrianople
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1451 - 1481
Definition
– mehmet II “the conqueror” – c onquered Constantinople – “ceasar of rome” – all Serbia, attacked hungary and southern italy
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julian justinian
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genoese merchant killed when ottomans took constantinople in 1453
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emperor constantine XI
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emperor when constantinople taken by ottoman turks, led by mehmet II - disappeared
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millet system
Definition
for ottomans to administer their multiethnic empire - started by mehmet II (1451 - 1481) - religious leaders govern their own religious minorities within empire
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al-mutawakkil III
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last abbasid caliph, ottomans found in mamluk egypt when they (selim) subued in 1517 - taken to present sultan with title of caliph
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1517
Definition
– ottomans take mamluk Egypt (selim)
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sufi sheik ismail
Definition
leads azeri turks in safavi empire - imami (12) shiites - big empire by 1510
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mughal dynasty
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early 16th cent - sufi sheik ismail, leader of safavid empire, sends timurid warlord babur to conquer north india - lasts until 19th c
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1510 - 1722
Definition
safavid empire – founded by sufi sheik ismail – responsible for political primacy of imami (12) shiism
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1512-1520
Definition
– Selim “the grim/stern” – conquers mamluk Egypt – fights safavids and captures isamail’s wife – effective leadership and taxation – most modern muslim empire
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1514
Definition
selim battles safavids and badly defeats – safavids more capitol further east (was Tabriz) – ismailsl favorite wife captured
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1520-1566
Definition
Suleiman “the magnificent” – destroys Christian hungary – effective rule – encouraged scholarship – undisputed ruler of Balkans, only Vienna doesn’t fall
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1571
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battle of lepanto - christians beat back ottomans
Term
713 - 737
Definition
Muhammad al-Baqir
Term
737-765
Definition
jafar al-sadiq
Term
early 8th c
Definition
codification movement of hadiths begins – about 3000
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musa al kazim
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jafar al-sadiq's other son - Imamis (12) followed him - poisoned by harun al rashid
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Rabi’a
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d. 801 - female sufi mystic
Term
819 - 1005
Definition
Samanids – descended from rebel abbasid governor – persianized – ruled khurasan – fell to their huge mamluk army, Ghaznavids
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d.820
Definition
– al-Shafi’I – book about ijma and shari’a – don’t catch on until mid 10th c
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874 - 941
Definition
11th Imam dies without successor – Uthman al-Amri – lesser concealment
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