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Founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, Saladin united Egypt and Syria, defeated the Crusaders at Hattin and retook Jerusalem in 1187, becoming a symbol of jihad against the Crusades and of chivalry recognized even by his enemies.
Political topics
Saladin leans further toward religious than 97% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Saladin stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Saladin sits practically at the catalog median.
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Ideology advocating the political unity of Muslims above national borders, around the ummah and the ideal of a caliphate, formulated by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and adopted by Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II against European colonialism.
Roman imperial tradition that, from Julius Caesar through Augustus, Nero, Marcus Aurelius and Justinian, concentrates army, law and administration in the ruler while preserving institutions, popular provisioning and sovereignty over a diverse empire.
Current that mobilizes the people against political and cultural elites, combining nationalism, immigration restriction, traditional values, public religion, strong security, and anti-establishment economic pragmatism around personalist leaders.
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Green AnarchismAnarchist26%
Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, Qutb wrote Milestones, which declared modern Muslim societies to be in jahiliyya and called for a vanguard to establish God's sovereignty. He was executed by Nasser's government in 1966.
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A parliamentary Islamic republic and nuclear power, Pakistan alternates civilian governments with strong army tutelage, with sharia-inspired laws, a mixed economy dependent on foreign aid, and a permanent rivalry with India.
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A Sunni caliphate with its capital in Baghdad, the Abbasids ruled from the Maghreb to Central Asia under a caliph with religious and political authority, with a Persian-style bureaucracy, long-distance trade, and the House of Wisdom in the Islamic Golden Age.
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