Statistics for Historical Figures of Medieval Islam

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A lame conqueror	Timur	53%
Rebel against Umayyad rule, founder of a Shi'ite sect dominant in Yemen today	Zayd bin Ali	49%
"The Sword of God", the commander who won wars against East Rome and Persia	Khalid ibn al-Walid	42%
Moroccan scholar who traveled across Eurasia	Ibn Battuta	39%
Caliph who founded of the House of Wisdom, is a character in the Thousand and One Nights	Harun al-Rashid	35%
Governor of Syria and first dynastic Caliph	Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan	35%
Seljuk Sultan who conquered Armenia and defeated East Rome at Manzikert	Alp Arslan	26%
Khwarezmian Sultan who angered the Mongols	Muhammad II	26%
Scholar from whom we get the words "Algebra" and "Algorithm" from	Al-Khwarizmi	21%
Leader of the Abbasid Revolution	Abu Muslim	14%
Sultan of Egypt who beat back the Mongols and crushed the Crusaders	Baibars	14%
Writer of the Shahnameh, the Persian national epic	Ferdowsi	14%
Founder of the Islamic school dominant in the Levant and Central/South Asia today	Abu Hanifa	12%
"The Mad Caliph" of Cairo, important in Druze, and disappeared mysteriously	Al-Hakim	7%
Turkic Atabeg who attacked Edessa and started the Second Crusade	Zengi	4%