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Alp Arslan
Alp Arslan (Persian: آلپ ارسلان; full name: Diya ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Adud ad-Dawlah Abu Shuja Muhammad Alp Arslan ibn Dawud) (20 January 1029 – 15 December 1072) was the second Sultan of the Seljuq Empire and great-grandson of Seljuq, the eponymous founder...
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Timur Lang
Timur, Tarmashirin Khan, Emir Timur (Persian: تیمور Timūr, Chagatai: Temür "iron"; 9 April 1336 – 18 February 1405), historically known as Tamerlane [1] (Persian: تيمور لنگ Timūr(-e) Lang, "Timur the Lame"), was a Turko-Mongol ruler of Barlas lineage....
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Mahmud of Ghazni
Mahmud of Ghazni (2 November 971 – 30 April 1030), was the most prominent ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire. In the name of Islam, he conquered the eastern Iranian lands and the northwestern Indian subcontinent from 997 to his death in 1030. Mahmud turned...
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Aurangzeb Alamgir
Aurangzeb (Born 1618; Died 1707), known as Alamgir I, was the 6th ruler of the Muslim Mughal Empire in India from 1658 to 1707. He was the 3rd son of Shah Jahan (builder of the Taj Mahal). Aurangzeb was very pious and led a simple life. Strict adherence...
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Nur-ud-din Mohammad Salim Jahangir
Nur-ud-din Mohammad Salim, known by his imperial name Jahangir (30 August, 1569-28 October, 1627), was the fourth Mughal Emperor who ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627. Jahangir was the eldest surviving son of Mughal Emperor Akbar and was declared...
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Haidar Ali
Hyder Ali , also spelled Haidar Ali (born 1722, Budikote, Mysore [India]—died December 7, 1782, Chittoor), Muslim ruler of Mysore princely state and military commander who played an important part in the wars in southern India in the mid-18th century....
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Faqir of Ipi
Mirza Ali Khan known as the Faqir of Ipi, was a Pashtun from today's North-Waziristan Pakistan, Federally Administrated Tribal Areas. His followers addressed him as 'Haji Sahib' (or Respected Pilgrim). The village of Ipi is located near Mirali Camp in...
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Suleiman the Magnificent
Suleiman I known as “the Magnificent” in the West and “Kanuni” (the Lawgiver) in the East, (6 November 1494 – 7 September 1566) was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566. [3] Suleiman became a prominent...
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Muhammad bin Qasim
Imaduddeen Muhammad bin Qasim bin Yusuf Sakifi. Born: 695 in Taif, Arabia. Died: 715. He was an Umayyad general who, at the age of 17, began the conquest of the Sindh and Punjab regions in India (now part of Pakistan) for the Umayyad Caliphate. He was...
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Shirkuh
Asad ad-Din Shirkuh bin Shadhi literally means lion of the mountains in Kurdish), also known as Shêrko or "Shêrgo" (died 22 February 1169) was an important Kurdish military commander, and uncle of Saladin. His military and diplomatic efforts in Egypt...
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Colonel Sher Khan
Colonel Sher Khan was a Pakistan Army officer who is one of only eleven recipients of Pakistan's highest gallantry award, the Nishan-e-Haider. He was a Captain in the 27 Sindh Regiment of the Pakistan. Name Captain Sher Khan was born in Nawan Killi (Shewa...
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Ghiyasuddin Balban
Ghiyasuddin Balban was the ninth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty. Early life He was son of a Central Asian Turkic noble of the Ilbari tribe, but as a child he was captured by Mongols and sold as a slave at Ghazni [2] Later, he was bought by Sultan Iltutmish...
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Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi
Abd el-Krim was a Moroccan Riffian political and military leader. Together with his brother Mhemmed, he led a large-scale revolt by a broad coalition of major Rif tribes against French and Spanish colonial occupation of the Rif, a large Berber-speaking...
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Isa Khan Niazi
Isa Khan Niazi (Pashto: عیسی خان نيازي ) was an Afghan noble in the court of Sher Shah Suri and his son Islam Shah Suri, of the Sur dynasty, who fought the Mughal Empire. Isa khan Niazi was born in 1453 and his last brother was born in 1478. He died in...
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Omar Al-Mukhtār
Omar Mukhtar was born in the small village of Janzour, near Tobruk in eastern Barqa (Cyrenaica) in Libya. Beginning in 1912, he organized and, for nearly twenty years, led native resistance to Italian colonization of Libya. Italian armed forces captured...
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Sayyid Mahmud Khan Barha
Sayyid Mahmud Khan Barha, also known as Mahmud Khan, was a general in the Akbar'r army, Amiral Kabir Sayyid Mahmud Khan Barha, son of Sayyid Mubarak (also known as Makhan), was the first person of this family - the Saiyids of Barah - to rise to the rank...
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Aurangzeb
Abul Muzaffar Muhi-ud-Din Mohammad Aurangzeb, commonly known as Aurangzeb and by his imperial title Alamgir ("world-seizer" or "universe-seizer") was the sixth Mughal Emperor and ruled over most of the Indian subcontinent. His reign lasted for 49 years...
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Sher Shah Suri
Sher Shah Suri , also known as Sher Khan, "The Lion King") was the founder of the Sur Empire in North India, with its capital at Delhi. [3] An ethnic Pashtun, Sher Shah took control of the Mughal Empire in 1540. After his accidental death in 1545, his...
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Zheng He
Zheng He (1371–1433), formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Hui-Chinese court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433....
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Syed Ahmad Shaheed
Syed Ahmad Shaheed also called Syed Ahmed Barelvi , was a Muslim activist from Rae Bareli, India. and founder of the "The Way of the Prophet Muhammad" (Tariqah Muhammadiyyah), a revolutionary Islamic movement. His supporters designated him an Amir al-Mu'minin...
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Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine
Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abdelkader El Djezairi, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion in the mid-19th century. An Islamic scholar and Sufi who unexpectedly...
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Gnenral Bakht Khan
Bakht Khan (1797–13 May 1859) was nominal commander-in-chief of Indian rebel forces in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the East India Company. Background Bakht Khan was a Pashtun related to the family of Rohilla chief Najib-ul-Daula, from a branch...
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Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi
Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi (1797– 20 August 1861) was one of the main figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was a philosopher, a poet, a religious scholar, but is most remembered for issuing a fatwa in favour of Jihad against the 'English' in 1857. Life...
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Abdullah Yusuf Azzam
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was a highly influential Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, who preached in favour of both defensive jihad and offensive jihad by Muslims to help the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet invaders. [3] He raised funds,...