Ansar, Al Ansar, or Al-Ansar may refer to:
Organizations
Religious groups
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Ansar (Islam)
The Ansar (), also spelled Ansaar or Ansari, were the local inhabitants of Medina (mostly Muslims) who supported the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad, and his followers (the ''Muhajirun''), when they fled from Mecca to Medina during the ...
, citizens from Medina who helped Muhammad
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Ansar (Sudan)
The Ansar () are a Sufism, Sufi religious movement in the Sudan whose followers are disciples of Muhammad Ahmad (12 August 1844 – 22 June 1885), a Sudanese religious leader based on Aba Island who proclaimed himself Mahdi on 29 June 1881. His fol ...
, a Sufi religious movement in the Sudan
Military group
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Al-Ansar (Iraq)
Al-Ansar (, 'the Partisans') was the paramilitary wing of the Iraqi Communist Party, active between 1979 and 1988.
Early phase
When the alliance between the Iraqi Communist Party and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region, Iraqi Ba'a ...
, a Communist guerrilla group in Iraq active from 1979 to 1988
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Ansar Brigade, a Syrian rebel group
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Bangladesh Ansar
The Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (; also known as the Ansar Bahini or Ansar VDP) is a paramilitary auxiliary force responsible for the preservation of internal security and law enforcement in Bangladesh. It is administered by the ...
, an internal security force in Bangladesh
People
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Ansar Burney, Pakistani-Arab human rights activist (b. 1956)
Places
Iran
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Ansar, Hamadan, a village in Hamadan Province, Iran
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Ansar, North Khorasan, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
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Ansar Rural District, in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Other places
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Ansar, Siwan, India
* Ansar, Kazakhstan, a rural locality in
Akmola Region
Akmola Region (, ; ) is a centrally located regions of Kazakhstan, region of Kazakhstan. It was known as Tselinograd Oblast during Soviet Union, Soviet rule. Its capital is Kökşetau. The national capital, Astana, is enclosed by the region, but ...
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Ansar, Lebanon
Ansar (; also spelled Insar) is a municipality in the Nabatieh Governorate region of southern Lebanon located between Nabatieh and Tyre, Lebanon, next to the village of Doueir. It has a population of 31,970.
History Ottoman era
In 1875, Victor Gu ...
, a village in south Lebanon
Sports teams
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Al Ansar FC
Al Ansar Football Club () is a football club based in Tariq El Jdideh, a district in Beirut, Lebanon, that competes in the . Formed in 1951, the club did not win its first Lebanese Premier League until 1988. They went on to set a world record ...
, a Lebanese association football team
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Al Ansar FC (women)
Al Ansar Football Club () was the women's team of the Lebanese association football club Ansar. Founded in 2007 as one of the first women's teams in Lebanon, Ansar withdrew their women's team prior to the 2011 season.
History
Ansar's women's ...
, a defunct Lebanese women's association football team
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Al Ansar Club (Libya)
AlAnsar () is a Libyan football club based in Bayda, Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east ...
, a Libyan association football team
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Al-Ansar FC (Medina)
Al-Ansar Football Club () is a Saudi Arabian professional multi-sports club based in Medina that plays in the Saudi Second Division, the third tier of Saudi football. It was founded in 1953. The club play their home games at the Al-Ansar Club St ...
, a Saudi Arabian association football club
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Al-Ansar (Saudi Arabia, basketball)
Al-Ansar is a professional basketball club based in the city of Medina in the Al Madinah Province, Saudi Arabia that plays in the Saudi Premier League. They competed in the 2000 and 2010 Arab Club Championships.
Achievements
*Saudi Arabia Premier ...
, a Saudi Arabian basketball team
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Ansar Howara SC, a Lebanese association football team
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Ansar Al Mawadda SC
Ansar Al Mawadda Sporting Club () is a football club based in Tabbaneh, a district in Tripoli, Lebanon, that competes in the and is primarily supported by the Druze community.
Established in 1968 as Racing Hazmieh (), the club's licence w ...
, a Lebanese association football team
Other uses
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Anshar
Anshar ( , , ) was a Mesopotamian god regarded as a primordial king of the gods. He was not actively worshiped. He was regarded as the father of Anu. In the first millennium BCE his name came to be used as a logographic representation of the ...
, also spelt ''Anšar'', an ancient Babylonian sky god
See also
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Ansar al-Islam, a Sunni Islamist group of Iraqis promoting a radical interpretation of Islam
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Ansar al-Sharia Ansar al-Sharia or Ansar al-Shariah is a name used by a collection of radical or militant Islamist groups or militias, in at least eight countries. While they share names and ideology, they lack a unified command structure.
*Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen ...
, a number of Islamist groups active in the Arab world
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Ansar-e Hezbollah
Ansar-e Hezbollah[''CIA - The World Factbook''](_blank)
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, a militant conservative Islamic group in Iran
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Ansar al-Sunna (Mozambique)
Al-Shabaab (), also known as Ansar al-Sunna (, ) or Ahlu Sunna Wal Jammah, is an Islamist militant group active in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique. Since October 2017, it has waged an insurgency in the region, seeking to undermine the secula ...
, an Islamist militant group active in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique
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Ansar Dine
Ansar Dine ( ''ʾAnṣār ad-Dīn'', also transliterated ''Ançar Deen''), meaning " helpers of the religion" (Islam) (Defenders of the Faith) and also known as Ansar al-Din (abbreviated as AAD), was a Salafi jihadist group led by Iyad Ag Gha ...
, a Tuareg Islamist group, accused of having links with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other Islamist groups
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Ansari (disambiguation)
Ansari may refer to:
People
* Ansar (Islam), an Islamic term that literally means "helpers" and denotes the citizens of Medina who helped the prophet Muhammad after he migrated from Mecca
** Banu Aws, one of the main Arab tribes of Medina which, ...
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Ansaru
The Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa ( '), better known as Ansaru and less commonly called al-Qaeda in the Lands Beyond the Sahel, is an Islamic fundamentalist Jihadist militant organisation originally based in the northe ...
, a Nigerian Islamist group, in conflict with the Nigerian state
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Ansarullah (Ahmadiyya)
Majlis Ansarullah (; ''Association for the Helpers n the causeof Allah'') is an auxiliary organization of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community for men above forty years of age. It was founded in 1940 by Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad, the second ...
, an auxiliary organization of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
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Anser (disambiguation)
Anser may refer to:
People
* Anser (poet), poet of ancient Rome
* Anser Farooq, Canadian lawyer
Other uses
* ''Anser'' (bird), a genus of geese
* Anser (putter), a model of golf club made by Ping
* Anser Island, in Victoria, Australia
* ACME ...
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Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna
Jamaat Ansar al-Sunnah (), also known as Jaish Ansar al-Sunna ('Army of the Helpers of Sunnah'), Ali ibn Abi Talib Battalion or simply as Ansar al-Sunnah was an Iraqi Sunni insurgent group that fought against United States troops and their loc ...
, an Iraqi Sunni insurgent group that fought against US Troops and their local allies during the Iraq War
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Nuwaubian Nation
The Nuwaubian Nation, Nuwaubian movement, or United Nuwaubian Nation () is an American religious organisation founded by Dwight York circa 1967. Since that point the group has repeatedly changed its name, as well as many of its teachings and pra ...
, formerly the Ansaaru Allah Community, a black nationalist group in the US
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