When Ali ibn Abi Talib, ... Ali would become the fourth caliph decades later, only to be murdered by an assassin with a poisoned sword in the mosque in Kufa in 661.

The competition for caliph would split the faith. After Mohammed died, some thought his favorite son-in-law, Ali, should serve. A supporter of Ali was rendered as Shiaat Ali, which became “Shia ...

598: Ali, who will become the fourth caliph and the first Shiite Imam, is born. 610: The year Muslims cite as the beginning of Muhammad's mission and revelation of the Quran.

It was also the day that Hussein ibn Ali died in battle, in Karbala, Iraq, in A.D. 680. ... He was killed in A.D. 661, which allowed his opponent Muawiya to become caliph.

Indeed, Abdulhamid was planning to instate Ali Haydar as the emir when he reached maturity, a plan that came to an end with the caliph's overthrow in 1909 after the Young Turk Revolution.

Shaukat Ali, the Indian Moslem leader at the Indian Round Table Conference here, who has been reported to be the leading figure in the movement to proclaim the Turkish ex-Sultan Abdel-Mejid as ...