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	Ali - LoveToKnow 1911
		Ali proved himself to be a brave and faithful soldier, and when Mahomet died without male issue, a few emigrants thought him to have the best claim to succeed him.
		A splendid mosque called Meshed Ali was afterwards erected near the city, but the place of his burial is unknown.
		The question of Ali's right to succeed to the caliphate is an article of faith which divided the Mahommedan world into two great sects, the Sunnites and the Shiites, the former denying, and the latter affirming, his right.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ali (658 words)

	IMAM ALI
		Ali proved himself to be a brave and faithful soldier, and when Mohammad died without male issue, a few emigrants thought Ali to have the best claim to succeed Mohammad.
		Ali's descendants by Fatima are known as the Fatimids.
		Ali is described as a bold, noble and generous man, "the last and worthiest of the primitive Muslims, who imbibed his religious enthusiasm from companionship with the prophet himself, and who followed to the last the simplicity of his example." (See further Caliphate.)
	imamali.blogspirit.com (819 words)

	Imam Ali Mosque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Imam Ali Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الإمام علي), also known as Meshed Ali or the Tomb of Ali, is a mosque located in Najaf, Iraq.
		It is venerated as the fourth holiest site by Muslims, particularly Shiites, Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad and the fourth caliph, is buried there.
		Because Ali was also Muhammad's cousin, he is considered by Shiite tradition to be the first legitimate caliph, and the first Imam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imam_Ali_Mosque (549 words)

	shia, Ali Prophet
		Ali proved himself to be a brave and faithful soldier, and when Muhammad died without male issue, a few emigrants thought Ali to have the best claim to succeed Muhammad.
		A splendid mosque called Meshed Ali was afterwards erected near the city at Najaf, the place of his burial.
		Ali is described as a bold, noble and generous man, "the last and worthiest of the primitive Muslims, who imbibed his religious enthusiasm from companionship with the prophet himself, and who followed to the last the simplicity of his example." (See further
	www.findthelinks.com /religion/Ali_prophet.htm (805 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Ali, Syed Ameer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ali, Syed Ameer (1849-1928) lawyer, spokesman on Indian Muslim concerns, and writer on Islamic history and society, was born on 6 April 1849 at Cuttack in Orissa.
		Ameer Ali's great-grandfather had migrated from Iran with the army of Nadir Shah in 1739, serving thereafter at the Mughal and Awadh courts.
		Indeed, Ameer Ali's greatest contribution was not political, for the confidence-boosting effects of his major publications which eulogised the 'golden ages' of Islam, and stressed the need for Muslims to come to terms with some of the changes caused by colonisation and Westernisation were his major achievements.
	banglapedia.org /HT/A_0186.HTM (1436 words)

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		MESHED has in the course of the past half-century been visited and described at greater or less length by several Europeans, among Previous whom Englishmen have been in the ascendant, in merit chroniclers as well as in numbers.
		A MESHED PPage_ 161 forcibly to expunge the Shiah faith,ËË yet often held his court at Meshed, restored and beautified the sacred shrine, and built in the city a tomb both for himself and for the son whom he had blinded in a fit of jealous passion.
		Meshed is surrounded, as are all Oriental towns of any size, by a mud wall with small towers at regular distances, and projecting bartizans at the angles.
	www.bahai-library.com /books/persian.question.txt (17392 words)

	Tyson (prime) vs Ali (prime) - The Cyber Boxing Zone Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Now when ali came back when he fought Frazier etc,,,he lost a lot of speed, he was more filled out that part of this was natural, but also part of this was him being away from boxing for a while.
		Ali was exposed as vulnerable before his 20th fight, so vulnerable that Liston jumped on the opportunity to beat up his sissy loud mouth.
		Ali breaks him down, clutches and grabs when he has to, and Tyson's effective speed is dimished by Ali's tactics.
	www.cyberboxingzone.com /cbzforum/showthread.php?t=2063 (5582 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Special \| Transforming Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Muhammad Ali (1805-2005) is a special series published fortnightly by Al-Ahram Weekly in anticipation of the international symposium commemorating the bicentennial of Muhammad Ali Pasha's acendancy to power, to be held in Egypt on 10 November.
		Mohamed Ali knew that if he was not to be dragged down with the rest of the empire, he had to build for himself and his descendants a powerful state entity and eventually expand the realm of this entity as much as possible.
		Mohamed Ali, they held, was not Egyptian and his government in Egypt did not rest on the will of the people or even reflect a popular nationalist aspiration, for the people in Arab lands were motivated by religious not national allegiances.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/742/sc2.htm (3277 words)

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		Ali, and R Alfano, "Effect of multiple light scattering and self absorption on the fluorescence spectra of dye in random media," J.
		Ali, B. Panoutsopoulos, and S.A. Ahmed, "On the feasibility of generating tunable cw argon laser pumped energy transfer dye laser emission in the near IR spectral region," Journal of Applied Optics, Vol.
		Ali, J. Moghaddasi, and S.A. Ahmed, "Examinations of Temperature effects on the lasing characteristics of Rhodamine CW dye lasers," Journal of Applied Optics, Vol.
	www-ee.ccny.cuny.edu /ali/ali.html (2623 words)

	U.S. Backing Helps Warlord Solidify Power (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ali, who loves this car so much he insists that the plastic covers be kept on the creamy tan leather seats, can't operate the console, and neither can his driver.
		Ali was up north, in the Panjshir Valley, mourning the death of the Northern Alliance's charismatic leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, when a new war in Afghanistan became inevitable on Sept. 11.
		Ali is less known than other warlords who have seized control of large parts of Afghanistan, such as Gen. Abdurrashid Dostum in Mazar-e Sharif or Ismail Khan in Herat.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A25851-2002Feb17¬Found=true (2209 words)

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		Mahmud was Mir Ali's student and accompanied him to Bukhara, when the latter was taken there by the Uzbeks in 1528.
		It is dated 1554 and Mir Ali is referred to as "the late " indicating that he was dead by this time.
		The addition of "al-Husayni" after the name of Mir Ali is a little confusing, but it would appear that the great master sometimes used this, probably referring to his supposed descent from the Shiite martyr al-Husayn Ibn Ali (died in 680 AD).
	www.islamicart.com /main/calligraphy/catalog/bukhara.html (362 words)

	NEJEF, or MESHED - Online Information article about NEJEF, or MESHED
		MESHED (properly Mash-had, " the place of martyrdom ")
		Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf.
		The accumulated treasures of Meshed `Ali were carried off by the Wahhabites See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NAN_NEW/NEJEF_or_MESHED.html (818 words)

	Khoj.html
		The elevation of Ali to an almost co-equal position with the Apostle of God himself, may be stated popularly as the great distinctive tenet of the Shias.
		Near Nijuf is Meshed Ali, the muasoleum of Ali and at Kerbela is Meshed Hoosein.
		It was also mentioned that the pedigree from Ali through Ismail to the Imam for the time being, is chanted 3 times a day as part of the service of the daily prayer called DUA throughout all the Jamatkhanas of the Khojas including that of Bombay.
	ismaili.net /Source/khoj.html (5957 words)

	Imam Ali on Almondnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ali ibn Abi Talib was the fourth Caliph or successor of Muhammad.
		Imam Ali (AS) was endowed with a quick, sharp, incisive, mathematical mind...
		Source: Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib: The First Intellectual Muslim Thinker by Dr.Muhammad Abdul Rauf, pgs 98...
	www.hope2helpanimalrescue.co.uk /pet/imam_ali.html (333 words)

	Baha'i Faith, Its Teachings & History. Chapter-3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But when he reached Meshed, the shrine city of the Imam Reza, the eighth in succession after Muhammad, whose tomb is visited annually by hundreds of thousands of Shi’ite pilgrims, the Mullas rose against him and had him arrested.
		Moreover, since in their besieged fortress they generously shared their possessions with one another, it was rumoured outside that the Babis practiced community of goods and also of women.(17) It is, therefore, not surprising that this strange and aggressive movement was feared both by the rulers and also by the Muslim populace.
		When Mulla Muhammad Ali was questioned as to why he had raised this insurrection, he laid the blame on Mulla Husayn, and it is said that he even cursed Mulla Husayn.(25) The next day the Babis were ordered to lay down their arms, which they did with great reluctance, fearing treachery.
	williamcareylibrary.gospelcom.net /thebahaifaith/Chapter-3.htm (4495 words)

	Mashhad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reza kianian, Cinema actor, He introduced new styles in Iranian theater and acting art.
		Ayatollah Ali khamenei, Leader of Islamic republic of Iran.
		Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Leader of Iraqi Shia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meshed (1287 words)

	Najaf, Iraq
		Najaf is renowned as the site of the tomb of Ali ibn Abi Talib (also known as Imam Ali), who the Shi'a consider to be their founder and first Imam; however, some believe he is buried at Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan.
		The Meshed Ali (Tomb of Ali) is housed in a grand structure with a gilded dome and many precious objects in the walls.
		Although the Iraqi government claimed to have caught and executed the supposed killers, all Sh'ia, one of whom was actually in prison at the time, many opposition figures and ordinary Shi'as blamed the killings on Saddam's regime, which was said to be systematically attempting to suppress independent voices in the Shi'a community.
	www.creekin.net /c4457-n88-najaf-iraq.html (1099 words)

	Vol 8
		Ali Zafar, Hazara, a sepoy of the 26th Bombay Infantry, came here on leave last year.
		He took service in the Artillery, and has now been summoned together with all those who are connected with him to Kabul, as a result of a report made by the officer commanding the Artillery that he (Ali Zafar) is a servant in two places*.
		The families of Mulla Ali Jan and Mulla Muhammad Ali, who were summoned to Kabul some time ago and who were subsequently put to death by the Amir, have returned to Kandahar.
	www.hazara.net /hazara/History/Vol_8/vol_8.html (2935 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Iraq was granted independence in 1932, though the British retained military bases and transit rights for their forces in the country.
		Iraq was invaded by the United Kingdom in 1941, for fears that the government of Rashid Ali might cut oil supplies to Western nations and because of his strong leanings to Nazi Germany.
		Shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf Image:Boat on Euphrates.jpg
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Iraq (2981 words)

	Why is Najaf so holy? By Brendan I. Koerner - Slate Magazine
		So Ali had requested that, when he died, he be buried not in his capital of Kufa but rather in neighboring Najaf.
		That shrine, the Meshed Ali, soon attracted pilgrims and clerics, and the city became the pre-eminent center of Shiite scholarship.
		Photograph of the tomb of the Caliph Ali by Adrees Latif/Reuters.
	www.slate.com /id/2099573?nav=mpp (930 words)

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		Ali, lion of God as in war he was, held aloof from politics and political intrigue, loved retirement and prayer, was the most pious and disinterested of men.
		Hussein, one of Alis two sons, married a Persian princess, the daughter of Yezdejerd the last of the Sassanian kings, the king whom the Mahometan conquest of Persia expelled; and Persia,through this marriage, became specially connected with the house of Ali.
		Ali returns from the sermon and his tent; but the river was still inacces- asks what they are about; and Hussein is sible.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/livn-1/livn0112.sgm (18000 words)

	BookRags: Sayyid Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Biography
		Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei (born 1939) followed Ayatollah Rohollah Khomeini as supreme spiritual and political leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
		Born in 1939, Sayyid Ali Khamenei was raised in a family of Islamic scholars in Meshed, a key city in northeast Iran.
		During the 1997 elections, Khamenei's choice for president, Ali Akbar Nateq-Noori, was defeated by Mohammed Khatami in a referendum by the general public for more freedom and liberty.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/sayyid-ali-khamenei-ayatollah (1224 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Supported by most tribal leaders, Ahmad Shah Durrani extended Afghan control from Meshed to Kashmir and Delhi, from the Amu River to the Arabian Sea.
		The Durrani was the second greatest Muslim empire in the second half of the 18th century, surpassed in size only by the Ottoman.
		This alarmed the British, who induced Fath 'Ali Shah of Persia to bring pressure upon the Afghan king and divert his attention from India.
	www.sabawoon.com /afghanpedia/Dynasty.Durrani.shtm (473 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Not All Comebacks Are Magical
		He has, as an immediate example, a return to the game by Michael Jordan, a mere two-year retiree who has meshed so well with the Chicago Bulls that they are the class of the league.
		Ringsiders were asking the referees to stop it as an act of mercy by the fourth round.
		But Ali would be remembered for that cruel spectacle.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/general/povich/launch/comeback.htm (1018 words)

	Mashhad
		Imam Riza died (819) in the city after visiting the grave of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, who had died there 10 years before; he was buried next to Harun, and the shrine was built over both graves.
		Ali Husaini Sistani - Sistani, Ali Husaini or Husayni or Ali Hussein al-Sistani, 1930–, Shiite grand ayatollah in...
		Ali Khamenei - Khamenei, Ali (Mohammad Ali Hoseyn Khamenei), 1939–, Iranian religious and political leader,...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0832087.html (372 words)

	Gorilla's Guides: It Is As If Saddam Had Never Left (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is located near the Meshed Ali (Tomb of Ali,) the resting place of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, nearly all Shi'as in Iraq request that they be buried in this cemetery.
		One of my dreams was to go to Iraq after 13 years and recite the "Fatiha" by her grave, as I always did after she left me at the age of 11 (she was 25)." Abbas Kadhim The convoy's destination is usually the holy city of Najaf and the Wadi al-Salam (valley of peace) cemetery.
		Here, within sight of the gilded Imam Ali mosque, the sheikh and a team of helpers wearing white gloves and masks unload the bodies, remove the plastic wrapping and cut the bonds of any whose hands were tied before they were killed.
	gorillasguides.blogspot.com /2006/09/it-is-as-if-saddam-had-never-left.html (1603 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Sidi Ali Reis (16th Century CE): Mirat ul Memalik ("The Mirror of Countries")
		Sidi Ali is the descendant of an illustrious family connected with the arsenal at Galata, in whom love for the sea seems to have been hereditary, and hence, as the Turkish publisher points out in his preface, Sidi Ali, being thoroughly acquainted with the nautical science of his day, excels as author on maritime subjects.
		Four valuable books were taken, and the whole of my correspondence was conveyed by his armour-bearer, Ali Bey, and a Yassaul to the Shah in a sealed bag, the transport being effected on a barrow about the middle of Muharram of the said year.
		Ali Pasha received me there with marked distinction; I delayed a short time to visit the grave of Abdul Wahab Ghazi, and to call upon Ali Baba, who gave me his blessing.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/16CSidi1.html (16944 words)

	Shahrdar Family History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bahman Mirza's children were the only non-Georgian Caucasians of Royal blood to retain their title of Prince in the Czarist court.
		Born in Russia to a Georgian wife of Prince Mohammad Ali Qajar and educated in St. Petersburg, she was subsequently sent to Iran where she married Nematollah Khan Salar Amjad a General in Naser al-Din Shah's army and the powerful Cheif of the Inonloo Branch of the Shasavan tribe.
		Nematollah Khan was the son of Safar Ali Khan Mir Panj, one of the Tribal leaders of the Shahsavan and a General in Naser al-Din's military.
	www.afkhami.org /Shahrdar-History.htm (2352 words)

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