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Zahir ( ar, ظاهر‎ Ẓāhir) may refer to:


Philosophy

*Names of God in Islam#Lists of names, Aẓ-Ẓāhir, one of the names of God in Islam, meaning "''Evident''" or ''"Outer"''. *Zahir (Islam), in Islam, the exterior, surface, or apparent meaning of things *Ẓāhiri, a school of thought in Islamic Jurisprudence


Artistic works

*"The Zahir" (in the original Spanish, "El Zahir"), a 1949 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges *The Zahir (novel), ''The Zahir'' (novel) (in the original Portuguese, ''O Zahir''), a 2005 novel from the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho


People

*Zahir (surname) *Al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah (1005–1036), seventh caliph of the Fātimids *Az-Zahir of Aleppo, son of Saladin, leader of Ayyubid dynasty *Az-Zahir (Abbasid caliph) (1176–1226), Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1225 to 1226 *al-Ẓāhir Baybars (ruled 1260–77), Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria *az-Zahir Sayf ad-Din Barquq (died 1399), first sultan of the Mamluk Burji dynasty *Zahir-ud-Din Babur (1483–1531), established the Mughal dynasty in India in 1526 *Zahir al-Umar, virtual Arab ruler of northern Palestine in the 18th century *Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914–2007), last king of Afghanistan *Zaheer Abbas (born 1947), Pakistani cricketer *Zaheer Khan (born 1978), Indian cricketer *Zahir Pajaziti (born 1962), KLA Commander


Places

*Zahir Mosque, Kedah's state mosque in Alor Setar


See also

*Zaheer (name), Urdu spelling *Abdul Zahir (disambiguation) *Zahir al-Din (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, given name Arabic masculine given names