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1. Which Islamic general was victorious at the Battle of Hattin and, eventually, Jerusalem?
2. Who was the first president of Turkey, whose last name was given to him by the Turkish parliament and means "Father of the Turks"?
3. The Hegira ("flight") occurred in the year 622 as early Muslims fled the city of Mecca for which city, where they consolidated political and religious power?
4. Muhammad Ali Jinnah founded which country in 1947, the only country to date that has been created in the name of Islam?
5. The Franks are credited with stopping the advance of Islam into Europe at which battle, also known as the Battle of Poitiers?
6. Who was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
7. Which organization, founded in 1928, briefly ruled Egypt after the 2011 "Arab Spring" but is considered a terrorist organization by some countries?
8. Which "graveyard of empires" experienced a Marxist revolution in 1978 that was eventually put down by Muslim fighters from around the Middle East and Southwest Asia?
9. Two Middle Eastern countries warred for most of the 1980s. Several citizens of one belligerent fought on the side of the other nation, with whom they shared a religion. Which two nations are these?
10. Which Islamic empire ruled the Indian subcontinent and most of Afghanistan for over 300 years from the 16th to 19th centuries?
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