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Mamun
Son of Harun al-Rashid. He bested his brother in a civil war after their father's death (809) and became the seventh Abbasid caliph (813). Attempting to reconcile Sunni and Shiite Muslims, he designated as his heir a Shiite, to whom he married his daughter; the move, which failed to satisfy Shiite extremists and angered Sunnis, was nullified by the heir's death. He became a supporter of the Mutazila movement, which proposed a created rather than eternal nature for the Quran, but failed to impose Mutazili doctrine on his people. His sponsorship of translations of Greek philosophical and scientific works and his building of observatories proved a more lasting legacy.


amen
Expression of agreement or confirmation used in worship by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The word derives from a Semitic root meaning "fixed" or "sure." The Greek Old Testament usually translates it as "so be it"; in the English Bible it is often translated as "verily" or "truly." By the 4th cent. BC, it was a common response to a doxology or other prayer in the Jewish temple liturgy. By the 2nd cent. AD, Christians had adopted it in the liturgy of the Eucharist, and in Christian worship a final amen now often sums up and confirms a prayer or hymn. Though less common in Islam, it is used after reading of the first sura.


Amon
Egyptian deity revered as king of the gods. Amon may have originated as a local deity at Khmun in Middle Egypt. His cult spread to Thebes, where he became patron of the pharaohs by Mentuhotep I's reign (2008-1957 BC) and was identified with the sun god Re. Represented as a human, a ram, or both, Amon-Re was worshiped with the goddess Mut and the youthful god Khons. Akhenaton directed his reforms against the cult of Amon, but with little success, and Amon's status was restored in the 14th-13th cent. BC. In the New Kingdom, Amon came to be seen as one of a triad with Ptah and Re, and in the 11th-10th cent. BC as a universal god who intervened in affairs of state by speaking through oracles.


Bakunin
Russian anarchist and political writer. He traveled in Western Europe and was active in the Revolutions of 1848. After attending the Slav congress in Prague, he wrote the manifesto An Appeal to Slavs (1848). Arrested for revolutionary intrigues in Germany (1849), he was sent to Russia and exiled to Siberia. He escaped in 1861 and returned to Western Europe, where he continued his militant anarchist teachings. At the First International (1872) he engaged in a famous quarrel with K. Marx, which split the European revolutionary movement.


Cajun
Any descendant of French Canadians driven by the British in the 18th cent. from the captured French colony of Acadia (now Nova Scotia and adjacent areas) who settled in the fertile bayou lands of S Louisiana. Many Cajuns speak a dialect of N. Amer. French. In recent decades Cajun cuisine, noted for its use of hot seasonings, and ...

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