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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 **

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") * Ansari (nesba), people known as Ansari or Al-Ansari as a nesba * Ansari (surname), contemporary people known as Ansari or Al-Ansari as a surname *

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

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* Ansari mountains, in Syria *

Ansariye, Lebanon Ansariyah, Ansariyeh, or Insariye (Insârîyé) () is a municipality in South Governorate in Lebanon, 62 km from Beirut and 20 km south of Sidon. The area is 7.35 km² and is situated near the sea facing it from an altitude of 144 m. History On 5 ...

, a town in South Lebanon * Dupuk Ansari, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran

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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 Ahmed al-Hasan () is an Iraqi Shia Muslim religious leader. He has been called the most prominent of figures claiming to be the messianic al-Yamani, in the chaos following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. In Twelver Shi'ism Islam, the majorit ...

is the messenger of the 12th imam

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