Statistics for Historical Figures of Medieval Islam

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A lame conqueror	Timur	52%
Rebel against Umayyad rule, founder of a Shi'ite sect dominant in Yemen today	Zayd bin Ali	48%
"The Sword of God", the commander who won wars against East Rome and Persia	Khalid ibn al-Walid	44%
Moroccan scholar who traveled across Eurasia	Ibn Battuta	41%
Caliph who founded of the House of Wisdom, is a character in the Thousand and One Nights	Harun al-Rashid	36%
Governor of Syria and first dynastic Caliph	Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan	36%
Seljuk Sultan who conquered Armenia and defeated East Rome at Manzikert	Alp Arslan	26%
Khwarezmian Sultan who angered the Mongols	Muhammad II	25%
Scholar from whom we get the words "Algebra" and "Algorithm" from	Al-Khwarizmi	21%
Founder of the Islamic school dominant in the Levant and Central/South Asia today	Abu Hanifa	15%
Leader of the Abbasid Revolution	Abu Muslim	15%
Sultan of Egypt who beat back the Mongols and crushed the Crusaders	Baibars	15%
Writer of the Shahnameh, the Persian national epic	Ferdowsi	13%
"The Mad Caliph" of Cairo, important in Druze, and disappeared mysteriously	Al-Hakim	10%
Turkic Atabeg who attacked Edessa and started the Second Crusade	Zengi	5%

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