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Also Known As Sheykh Ḥeydar
Born Iran
Died July 9, 1488 • Iran
Ali Khamenei
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rahbar of Iran
ʿAbbās I
ʿAbbās I
Ṣafavid shah of Persia
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Fatḥ ʿAlī Shāh
shah of Iran
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Sheikh Junayd
Iranian mystic
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Ṣafī al-Dīn
Muslim mystic
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Pemulwuy
Australian Aboriginal warrior
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Iraqi Shiʿi leader and cleric
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Clovis I
Merovingian king
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Mojtaba Khamenei
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Robert
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Tecumseh
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Saladin
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ʿUmar Tal
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Black Hawk
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Bohemond I
prince of Otranto and of Antioch
Oda Nobunaga
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