| IRAN | Site of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 |
| KHOMEINI | Name the ayatollah who led the Iranian Revolution of 1979. (8) |
| CALIPH | The title of the successors of Mohammed as rulers of the Islamic world, later assumed by the Sultans of Turkey |
| RAMADAN | Ninth month of the Islamic calendar, the month of lasting (7) |
| MAHDI | Muhammad Ahmad assumed this title of the Islamic promised redeemer in his campaign to liberate the Sudan in the 1880s |
| DII | CXX years before the start of the Islamic calendar |
| SUFISM | Esoteric dimension of the Islamic faith, the spiritual path to mystical union with God (6) |
| SHIA | Atheists lack test for one of the Islamic branches (4) |
| NAWAB | Rich potentate of the Islamic world |
| RAJAB | Seventh month of the Islamic calendar (5) |
| MUHARRAM | First month of the Islamic calendar |
| MUSLIM | Follower of the Islamic faith (6) |
| KORAN | Religious scriptures of the Islamic faith (5) |
| SHAWWAL | Tenth month of the Islamic calendar, falling between Ramadan and Dhu al-Qidah (7) |
| SAFAR | Second month of the Islamic calendar, commencing on 28 August in 2022 (5) |
| MENSHEVIK | Member of the moderate non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party before the October Revolution of 1917 (9) |
| BLACKJACOBINS | The ___, classic history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 (5,8) |
| DELACROIX | French painter whose Liberty Leading the People is considered a definitive image of the July Revolution of 1830 (9) |
| REDARMY | Military force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic established after the October Revolution of 1917 (3,4) |
| ALAMO | Battle of the ____, key conflict in the Texas Revolution of 1836 (5) |
