Historical Figures of Medieval Islam

Name these Islamic historical figures in the Medieval Period!

Answers are historical persons from the Middle East, North Africa, and Greater Iran.

Answers are historical persons within the time period from 632 (Death of Muhammad) to 1453 (Fall of Constantinople)

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

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