Arab Muslim forces

Target entity: Arab Muslim forces
Context triple: [Amida, conqueredBy, Arab Muslim forces]

• A. Abbasid forces
  Abbasid forces were the military supporters of the Abbasid family whose victory over the Umayyads enabled the establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate in the mid-8th century.
• B. Mahdist Ansar forces
  The Mahdist Ansar forces were the Sudanese Islamist rebel army loyal to Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi that waged a successful jihad against Egyptian and British control in the late 19th century.
• C. Mamluk forces
  Mamluk forces were the military units of the Mamluk Sultanate, composed largely of slave-soldier elites who defended and ruled parts of Egypt and the Levant and famously resisted powers such as the Mongols and European crusaders.
• D. Egyptian forces
  Egyptian forces were the military contingents of the medieval Islamic rulers of Egypt, notably the Ayyubid dynasty, that fought in regional conflicts such as the Battle of Harran during the Crusades.
• E. al-Jaysh al-ʿArabī
  al-Jaysh al-ʿArabī, better known in English as the Arab Legion, was the British-organized and -trained army of the Emirate and later Kingdom of Transjordan that became one of the most effective military forces in the Arab world in the first half of the 20th century.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Arab Muslim forces
Target entity description: Arab Muslim forces were the early Islamic armies that rapidly expanded the Arab Caliphates across the Middle East and beyond in the 7th and 8th centuries.

• A. Abbasid forces
  Abbasid forces were the military supporters of the Abbasid family whose victory over the Umayyads enabled the establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate in the mid-8th century.
• B. Mahdist Ansar forces
  The Mahdist Ansar forces were the Sudanese Islamist rebel army loyal to Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi that waged a successful jihad against Egyptian and British control in the late 19th century.
• C. Mamluk forces
  Mamluk forces were the military units of the Mamluk Sultanate, composed largely of slave-soldier elites who defended and ruled parts of Egypt and the Levant and famously resisted powers such as the Mongols and European crusaders.
• D. Egyptian forces
  Egyptian forces were the military contingents of the medieval Islamic rulers of Egypt, notably the Ayyubid dynasty, that fought in regional conflicts such as the Battle of Harran during the Crusades.
• E. al-Jaysh al-ʿArabī
  al-Jaysh al-ʿArabī, better known in English as the Arab Legion, was the British-organized and -trained army of the Emirate and later Kingdom of Transjordan that became one of the most effective military forces in the Arab world in the first half of the 20th century.
• F. None of above. chosen