1. LEADERS OF THE MUSLIM EMPIRE “SUCCESSOR”

2. CALIPH

3. ALI’S SON HE WAS A SHITE MURDERED IN IRAQ

4. HUSAYN

5. MOHAMMED’S FATHER-IN-LAW HE WAS THE FIRST CALIPH

6. ABU BAKR

7. GOVERNOR OF SYRIA NEPHEW OF THE THIRD CALIPH CHALLENGED THE RULE OF ALI HE DIVIDED THE EMPIRE

8. MU’AWIAH

9. MUSLIM HOLY WAR

10. JIHAD

11. FOURTH CALIPH MOHAMMED’S SON-IN-LAW HE MARRIED TO FATIMAD HIS POWER WAS CHALLENGED AND HE WAS MURDERED

12. ALI

13. CAPITAL CITY OF THE ABBASID DYNASTY

14. BAGHDAD

15. THIS GROUP OF MUSLIMS BELIEVED THAT ANY DEVOUT MUSLIM COULD BE A CALIPH

16. SUNNI MUSLIMS

17. THIS GROUP OF MUSLIMS BELIEVED THAT THE CALIPH SHOULD ONLY BE A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF MOHAMMED

18. SHIITE MULSIMS

19. THIS DYNASTY SPREAD ISLAM INTO NORTH AFRICA, SPAIN, TO THE BORDERS OF INDIA AND CHINA HE MOVED THE CAPITAL TO DAMASCUS

20. UMAYYAD DYNASTY

21. THIS DYNASTY DEFEATED THE UMAYYAD DYNASTY

22. ABBASID DYNASTY

23. CAPITAL CITY DURING THE UMAYYAD DYNASTY

24. DAMASCUS

25. HE ESTABLISHED THE ABBASID DYNASTY

26. ABU’L ABBAS

27. HE LED THE ABBASID DYNASTY AT ITS HEIGHT OF ACHIEVEMENT

28. HARUN AL-RASHID

29. THIS DYNASTY RULED EGYPT, NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

30. FATIMID DYNASTY