Key Vocabulary of Muslim Expansion

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Ghazi

a warrior for Islam.

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Ottoman

a powerful Turkish empire that ruled over large parts of Southeast Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries.

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Sultan

"overlord" or "one with power"; title for Ottoman rulers during the rise of the Ottoman Empire.

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Timur the Lame

a rebellion warrior and conqueror from Samarkand in Central Asia, who briefly halted the expansion of the Ottoman Empire.

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Mehmed II

known as Mehmed the Conqueror, an Ottoman ruler who captured the city of Constantinople and helped rebuild the city.

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Suleiman the Lawgiver

a great ruler of the Ottoman Empire, who took power in 1520.

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Devshirme

in the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking boys from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers.

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Janissary

a member of an elite force of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire.

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Safavid

a member of a Shi'a Muslim dynasty that built an empire in Persia in the 16th-18th centuries.

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Isma'il

the founder of Safavid dynasty in Persia.

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Shah

hereditary monarch of Iran.

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Shah Abbas

known as Abbas the Great, he took the throne of the Safavid Empire in 1587 and helped create a Safavid culture and golden age that drew from the best of the Ottoman, Persian, and Arab worlds.

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Esfahan

a new capital city of the Safavid Empire built by Shah Abbas.

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Mughal

one of the nomads who invaded the Indian subcontinent in the 16th century and established a powerful empire there.

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Babur

the founder of the Mughal Empire.

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Akbar

Babur's grandson, who ruled India with wisdom and tolerance from 1556 to 1605.

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Sikh

a member of a nonviolent religious group whose beliefs blend elements of Buddhism, Hinduism and Sufism.

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Shah Jahan

a Mughal Emperor of India who built the Taj Mahal.

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Taj Mahal

a beautiful tomb in Agra, India, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.

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Aurangzeb

the third son of Shah Jahan.

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