Ansari may refer to:
People
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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 ...
, an Islamic term that literally means "helpers" and denotes the citizens of Medina who helped the prophet Muhammad after he migrated from Mecca
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Banu Aws
The Banū Aws ( , "Sons of Aws") or simply Aws (, also romanised as Aus) was one of the main Arab tribes of Medina. The other was Khazraj, and the two, constituted the Ansar ("Helpers of Muhammad”) after the Hijra..
The Aws tribe desc ...
, one of the main Arab tribes of Medina which, along with the Khazraj, constituted the Ansar ("helpers")
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Ansari (nesba), people known as Ansari or Al-Ansari as a nesba
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Ansari (surname), contemporary people known as Ansari or Al-Ansari as a surname
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Momin Ansari
The Momin Ansari () or Saudagar are a Muslim community of merchants found mainly in India, Pakistan, and Nepal. The literal meaning of Ansar is "supporter" in Arabic.
In North India, the community are known as Ansari or Shaikh while in Maharas ...
, a Muslim community, found mainly in West and North India and the province of Sindh in Pakistan
* Ansari, an alternate term for
Alawites
Alawites () are an Arab ethnoreligious group who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism, a sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ''ghulat'' branch during the ninth century. Alawites venerate Ali ...
or Alawis
Places
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Ansari mountains, in Syria
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Ansariye, Lebanon, a town in South Lebanon
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Dupuk Ansari, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
Other uses
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Ansari X Prize
The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 () prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable crewed spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. It was modeled af ...
, a former space competition
*Ansar Imam Mahdi, a 21st-century Shia movement that believes
Ahmad al-Hassan is the messenger of the 12th imam
See also
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Ansar (disambiguation)
Ansar, Al Ansar, or Al-Ansar may refer to:
Organizations
Religious groups
* Ansar (Islam), citizens from Medina who helped Muhammad
* Ansar (Sudan), a Sufi religious movement in the Sudan
Military group
* Al-Ansar (Iraq), a Communist guerril ...
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Ansari (surname)
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