husayn ibn ali

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born 1854, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire died 1931, Amman, Transjordan Sharif of the Hshimite line, Ottoman-appointed emir of Mecca (1908-16), and self-proclaimed king of the Arabs (1916-24). His claim to be the new caliph (1924) led to a short and unsuccessful war against Ibn Sad. usayn was exiled to Cyprus. One of his sons, Abdullh, became king of Transjordan (present-day Jordan); another became king of Syria and later Iraq as Faysal I

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born January 626, Medina, Hejaz, Arabian Peninsula died Oct. 10, 680, Karbal, Iraq Muslim political and religious leader. He was the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. After the assassination of his father, the fourth caliph, Al ibn Ab Tlib, he accepted the rule of the first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty, Muwiyah I. He refused, however, to acknowledge the succession of the latter's son, Yazd I, and instead accepted an invitation to travel to Iraq in order to lead a revolt against the Umayyads. He, along with a small entourage of family and followers, was intercepted by the Umayyads and killed at the Battle of Karbal. He is viewed by Shite Muslims as the prototypical martyr, and his death became a central theme of later Shite theology and is commemorated annually during the holy festival of shr

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