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| ghazi | A warrior for Islam. |
| Osman | The most successful ghazi (warrior for Islam). |
| Timur the Lame | A rebellious warrior and conqueror from OSamarkand in central Asia. |
| Mehmet II | Murad's son. Mehmet the conqueror, achieved the most dramatic feat in Ottoman history. By the time Mehmet took power in 1451, the anceient city of Constantinople had strunk from population of a million to a mere 50,000. |
| Suleiman the Lawgiver | Came to the thrown in 1520 and ruled for 46 years. He was knkown in the West, though, as Suleiman the Magnifiecent. This titile was a tribute to the splendor of his court and to his cultural achievements. |
| janissary | A member of an elite force of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire. |
| devshirme | Elite force of 30,000 was drawn from the peoples of conquered Christian territories as a apart of a policy. |
| Safavid | Originally the Savids were members of an Islamic religious brotherhood. They were named after their founder, Safi al'Din, who died in 1334. |
| Isma'il | A 14-year old who was the leader on the redheads. Despite his youth he was a brilliant warrior. Within two years he had seized most of what now is known as Iran. |
| Shah Abbas | Took the thrown in 1587. During his reign, he helped create a Safavid culture that drew from the best of the Ottoman, Persian, and Arab worlds. |
| Isfahan | Capital city of Perisa. |
| Mughal | People who invaded India. Term meaning "mongols." |
| Babur | In 1494 this 11-year-old boy inherited a kingdom in the area that is now known as Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. It was only a tiny kingdom, and his elders soon took it away and drove him south. |
| Akbar | Babur's grandson; name means "Great One." Akbar lived up to his name byruling India with wisdom and tolerance from 1556 to 1605. |
| Nur Jahan | Persian princess and wife of Jahangir. |
| Sikh | A nonviolent religious group whose doctrines blended Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sufism. |
| Shah Jahan | He could not tolerate competition, however, and secured his throng by assassinating all his possible rivals. He did have a great passion for two thing: beautiful building and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. |
| Taj Mahal | In 1631, Mumtaz Mahal died at age 38 giving birth to her 14th child. The heartbroken Shah Jahan lamented, "life has no relish for me now." TO enshiring his wife's memory, he ordered that a tomb be built as beautiful as she was beautiful. Some 20,000 workers labored for 22 years to build the famous tomb. Its towering marble dome and slender towers look like lace and seem to change color as the sun moves across the sky. The inside of the building is as magnificent as the exterior. It is a glittering garden of thousands of carved marble flowers inlaid with tiny precious stones. |
| Aurangzeb | Ruled from 1658 to 1707. He was a master at military strategy and an aggressive empire builder. Although he expanded the Mughal holdings to their greatest size, the power of the empire weakened during his reign. |
