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Ali Khedery
Ali Khedery is an American entrepreneur and a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before serving as an executive at ExxonMobil and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, he was the longest continuously serving American official in Iraq, from 2003 to 2009, and acted as a special assistant to five U.S. Ambassadors of the United States, ambassadors and as a senior adviser to three heads of U.S. Central Command. Biography Before joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ali Khedery served as chief executive of the U.S.-based Dragoman Ventures, an international strategic advisory firm. Khedery previously served as cofounder of AIQ, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's joint venture in artificial intelligence, where he spearheaded the construction of the United Arab Emirates' first commercial supercomputer, the formation of strategic partnerships with Fortune 500 corporations including Schlumberger and Baker Hughes, and the patenting of novel artificial intellige ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 common era, CE) was the last of four Rashidun, Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. The issue of his succession caused a major rift between Muslims and divided them into Shia Islam, Shia and Sunni Islam, Sunni groups. Ali was assassinated in the Grand Mosque of Kufa in 661 by the forces of Mu'awiya I, Mu'awiya, who went on to found the Umayyad Caliphate. The Imam Ali Shrine and the city of Najaf were built around Ali's tomb and it is visited yearly by millions of devotees. Ali was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, raised by him from the age of 5, and accepted his claim of divine revelation by age 11, being among the Chronological list of early Muslims, first to do so. Ali played a pivotal role in the early years of Islam while Muhammad was in Mecca and under severe persecution. After Muhammad's Hij ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
