religious leader

(Islam) a messianic leader who (according to popular Muslim belief) will appear before the end of the world and restore justice and religion

an Ismaili caliph of Egypt who declared himself an incarnation of God and founded the Druze religious sect (985-1021)

Indian religious leader and founder of the Yogacara school of Buddhism in India (4th century)

(Old Testament) Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land; best remembered for his destruction of Jericho

Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989)

United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920)

Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be attained by meditating on the name of God (1469-1538)

United States religious leader who founded the sect that is now called Jehovah's Witnesses (1852-1916)

United States religious leader who was the first person born in the United States to be canonized (1774-1821)

United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)

United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)

United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)