Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
variant of the
Arabic
Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...
name Rida, which literally means "the fact of being pleased or contented; contentment, approval". It is one of the most widely used names in
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
.
According to Annemarie Schimmel, "riḍā is closely related to shukr"; "shukr" is an Arabic term denoting thankfulness and gratitude. In
Islam
Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...
, rida is interpreted as ''satisfaction'' or "''perfect contentment'' with God's will or decree".
Given name
Religion
* Ali Reza, the Iranian Persian name for
Ali al-Rida
Ali al-Rida (, 1 January 766 – 6 June 818), also known as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Thānī, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the eighth imam in Twelver Shia Islam, succeeding his father, Musa al-Kazim. He is also part of th ...
, eighth
Twelver Shi'a
Twelver Shi'ism (), also known as Imamism () or Ithna Ashari, is the largest branch of Shi'a Islam, comprising about 90% of all Shi'a Muslims. The term ''Twelver'' refers to its adherents' belief in twelve divinely ordained leaders, known as th ...
Imam
Academics
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Reza Afshari
Reza Afshari () is professor of history at Pace University. He received his Ph.D. at Temple University. His studies center on human rights
Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that esta ...
, Iranian historian
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Reza Davari Ardakani
Reza Davari Ardakani (; born 6 July 1933, in Ardakan) is an Iranian philosopher who was influenced by Martin Heidegger, and a distinguished emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran. He is also the current member of the Iranian ...
Reza Iravani Mohammad Reza Iravani (in Persian: رضا ایروانی) is a professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He holds the L. Lau Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in ...
, Iranian academic
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Reza Malekzadeh
Reza Malekzadeh (; born 1952 in Kazerun, Fars province, Pahlavi Iran) is an Iranian medical scientist and gastroenterologist.
Career
Malekzadeh studied medicine at Shiraz University. He continued his studies to become specialized in Internal Me ...
, Iranian physician
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Reza Mansouri
Reza Mansouri (, born in 1948) is an Iranian physicist and astronomer and a retired professor of physics at Sharif University of Technology. His main research interest is cosmology, Gravity, gravitation and general relativity. As an author he had ...
, Iranian physicist
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Reza Olfati-Saber
Reza Olfati-Saber is an Iranian roboticist and Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Olfati-Saber is an internationally renowned expert in the control and coordination of multi-robot formati ...
, Iranian roboticist
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Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan (, ; born May 3, 1972) is an Iranian-American scholar of sociology, writer, and television host. A convert to Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity from Shia Islam as a youth, Aslan eventually reverted to Islam but continued to wr ...
, Iranian-American scholar, author, and journalist
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Reza Moridi
Reza Moridi (; born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Ontario Liberal Party, Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2018 who represented the riding of Richmond Hill (provincial electoral district) ...
, Canadian politician
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Reza Negarestani
Reza Negarestani (born 1977) is an Iranian philosopher and writer, known for "pioneering the genre of 'theory-fiction' with his book" ''Cyclonopedia'' which was published in 2008. It was listed in Artforum as one of the best books of 2009. Negar ...
, Iranian-American Philosopher
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Reza Zadeh
Reza Zadeh () is an American computer scientist and technology executive working on machine learning. He is adjunct professor at Stanford University, CEO of Matroid, and a founding team member at Databricks. His work focuses on machine learning ...
, American-Canadian-Iranian Computer Scientist
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Mohammad Ali Reza Khan
Mohammad Ali Reza Khan is a Bangladeshi ornithologist.
Education
Khan completed his HSC from Manikganj Debendranath College. He completed his Ph.D. in Ornithology from Bombay University (now University of Mumbai) in 1977 under the supervis ...
, Bangladeshi ornithologist
Arts
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Reza Abbasi
Reza Abbasi (), also known as Aqa Reza ( – 1635), was the leading Persian miniature, Persian miniaturist of the Isfahan School during the later Safavid period, spending most of his career working for Shah Abbas I. He is considered to be the l ...
(1565–1635), a Persian painter
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Reza Abdoh
Reza Abdoh (; also Romanized as "Rezā Abdoh", ) (February 23, 1963 – May 11, 1995) was an Iranian-born director and playwright known for large-scale, experimental theatrical productions, often staged in unusual spaces like warehouses and a ...
Reza Badiyi
Reza Sayed Badiyi (also known as Reza Badiei; Persian: رضا بدیعی; April 17, 1930 – August 20, 2011) was an Iranian-born American film and television director. His credits also include developing the title sequence montages for ' ...
(1930-2011), American film director
* Reza Baraheni (1935-2022), Iranian novelist
* Reza Borchardt, American magician
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Reza Deghati
Reza Deghati (; born July 26, 1952) is an Iranians in France, Iranian-French photojournalism, photojournalist.
Early life
Reza was born in Tabriz, Iran. He is ethnically Azerbaijanis, Azerbaijani.Reza Fayazi, Iranian film director
* Reza Feiz Noroozi, Iranian actor
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Reza Kianian
Reza Kianian (, born June 19, 1951, in Tehran) is an Iranian actor. He has received various accolades, including two Crystal Simorgh, a Hafez Award and two Iran Cinema Celebration Awards.
Early life
Kianian is the second child of a family of ...
Reza Samani
Reza Samani (born 1977) is an Iranian musician.
Biography
Samani was born in Chahar Mahal, Bakhtiari, Iran.
Samani immigrated to Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies betwee ...
Reza Shah-Kazemi
Reza Shah-Kazemi (born 1 June 1960) is an author who specializes in comparative mysticism, Islamic Studies, Sufism and Shi'ism. He is the founding editor of the ''Islamic World Report'' and currently a research associate at the Institute of Isma ...
Amitabh Reza Chowdhury
Amitabh Reza Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi filmmaker. In his career, he has directed nearly fifteen hundred (1500) television commercials (henceforth TVCs). Amitabh has also directed a few television films to critical acclaim. He founded the product ...
Iranian
Iranian () may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Iran
** Iranian diaspora, Iranians living outside Iran
** Iranian architecture, architecture of Iran and parts of the rest of West Asia
** Iranian cuisine, cooking traditions and practic ...
Shia Muslim
Shia Islam is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political Succession to Muhammad, successor (caliph) and as the spiritual le ...
who claimed to be the
Mahdi
The Mahdi () is a figure in Islamic eschatology who is believed to appear at the Eschatology, End of Times to rid the world of evil and injustice. He is said to be a descendant of Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad, and will appear shortly before Jesu ...
and
twelfth imam
Muhammad al-Mahdi () is believed by the Twelver Shia to be the last of the Twelve Imams and the eschatological Mahdi, who will emerge in the end of time to establish peace and justice and redeem Islam.
Hasan al-Askari, the eleventh Imam ...
, engaged in battles against the
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...
and
Kachari Kingdom
The Dimasa Kingdom also known as Kachari kingdom was a late medieval/early modern kingdom in Assam, Northeast India ruled by Dimasa kings. The Dimasa kingdom and others ( Kamata, Chutiya) that developed in the wake of the Kamarupa kingdom we ...
Reza Khan
Reza Shah Pahlavi born Reza Khan (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the roughly 53 years old Pahlavi dynasty. Originally a military officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war an ...
, Afghan Islamist
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Reza Zarrab
Reza Zarrab (, ; born 12 September 1983) is an Iranian-born businessman based in Turkey. He has Iranian, Azerbaijani, Turkish and Macedonian citizenship.
In March 2016, he was arrested in the United States, accused of being a member of an inter ...
Reza Ghotbi
Reza Ghotbi (; full name Abdorreza Ghotbi Gilani, Iranian; 5 April 1938 – 26 August 2024). He was a mathematician and a telecommunications engineer who headed the National Iranian Radio and Television during the Pahlavi dynasty.
Early life and ...
Reza Moridi
Reza Moridi (; born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Ontario Liberal Party, Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2018 who represented the riding of Richmond Hill (provincial electoral district) ...
, Canadian politician
* Reza Ostadi, Iranian politician
* Reza Pahlavi, last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran
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Reza Shah
Reza Shah Pahlavi born Reza Khan (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the roughly 53 years old Pahlavi dynasty. Originally a military officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war an ...
Reza Chahkhandagh
Reza Chahkhandagh (, born July 29, 1982) is an Iranian judoka.
Participating at the 2004 Olympic Games, he was stopped in the repechage round of 16 by Adil Belgaid of Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a count ...
Reza Soukhteh Saraei
Mohammad-Reza Soukhtehsaraei (; born 31 January 1950) is a retired Iranian super-heavyweight wrestler who competed in freestyle and Greco-Roman styles. He was a three-time flag bearer and gold medalist at the 1982, 1986, and 1990 Asian Games
...
, Iranian wrestler
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Reza Shahroudi
Reza Shahroudi (, born February 21, 1972) is a retired Iranian football player.
He played mostly for Persepolis. Shahroudi made 40 appearances for the Iran national football team and participated at 1998 FIFA World Cup.
He was also the coach of ...
Reza Yazdani
Reza Yazdani (, born August 25, 1984, in Juybar, Iran), nicknamed The Leopard of Juybar, is an Iranian Sport wrestling, wrestler and two-time world champion who won gold in the 2011 World Wrestling Championships and 2013 World Wrestling Champion ...
Abu Reza Muhammad Nezamuddin
Abu Reza Muhammad Nezamuddin Nadwi () is a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, educator. He is a former member of parliament for the Chittagong-15 constituency.
Early life
Nezamuddin was born on 15 August 1968 to a Bengalis, Bengali family in Madarsha ...
(born 1968), Bangladeshi scholar and politician
Abdolreza
* People with the theophoric given name.
Ali Reza
* People with the given name, after Ali Reza (765-818), Imam and eight descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Gholam Reza
* People with the given name, meaning ''servant of the contented one''
Mohammad-Reza
* People with the given name, after Mohammad Reza (1919–1980), the last
Shah
Shāh (; ) is a royal title meaning "king" in the Persian language.Yarshater, Ehsa, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII, no. 1 (1989) Though chiefly associated with the monarchs of Iran, it was also used to refer to the leaders of numerous Per ...
of
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
Jamilur Reza Choudhury
Dr. Jamilur Reza Choudhury (15 November 1942 – 28 April 2020) was a Bangladeshi civil engineer, professor, researcher, and education advocate. He was an Adviser (Minister) to Caretaker Government of Bangladesh (April–June 1996). He was the ...
(1942–2020), Bangladeshi academic
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Faridur Reza Sagar
Faridur Reza Sagar (born 22 February 1955) is a Bangladeshi writer and film producer. He is also the managing director of Impress Telefilm Ltd and Channel i. He was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2005 and Ekushey Padak in 2015 by ...
(born 1955), Bangladeshi writer and film producer
* Hashibur Reza Kallol, Bangladeshi film director
* Afgansyah Reza (born 1989), Indonesian singer, songwriter, and actor
* Ahmereen Reza (born 1961), British-Pakistani architect, social worker and political activist
* Amaan Reza (born 1986), Bangladeshi film actor
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Fahmi Reza
Mohd Fahmi Reza bin Mohd Zarin (; born 7 June 1977) is a Malaysian political graphic designer, street artist and documentary filmmaker. He is best known for depicting Malaysia's sixth Prime Minister, Najib Razak, as a clown. He is also known fo ...
, Malaysian political graphic designer, street artist and documentary film maker
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Farhad Reza
Farhad Reza (; born 16 June 1986) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Zimbabwe in July 2006 and is the first batsman from Bangladesh to score a half century on ODI debut. He is a right-handed middle ...
(born 1986), Bangladeshi cricketer
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Fazlollah Reza
Fazlollah Reza (; January 1, 1915 – November 19, 2019) was an Iranian scientist, academic, and diplomat known for his pioneering contributions to electrical engineering and information theory. Born in Iran, he pursued higher education in enginee ...
(1915–2019), Iranian academic
* Kévin Reza (born 1988), French professional road bicycle racer
* Liudvikas Rėza (1776–1840), Prussian-Lithuanian author a.k.a. Ludwig Rhesa
* Masum Reza, Bangladeshi playwright, television drama and stage play director
* M. A. Reza (born 1947), Bangladeshi politician
* (born 1965), Iranian-French writer of '' The Gardens of Consolation''
* Raafi Reza (born 1999), Bangladeshi footballer
* Sumon Reza (born 1995), Bangladeshi footballer
* Syed Masud Reza (born 1956), Bangladeshi politician
* Syed Shahed Reza, Bangladeshi civil servant
* Waliur Rahman Reza (1940–2020), Bangladeshi politician and journalist
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Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza (; born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays ''Art (play), 'Art and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. ...
MOBA
Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) is a subgenre of strategy video games in which two teams of players compete on a structured battlefield, each controlling a single character with distinctive abilities that grow stronger as the match progr ...
Shamim Reza Rubel murder
The Shamim Reza Rubel murder is a murder of private university student that took place in police custody and created a landmark legal case in Bangladesh.
History
Incident
Shamim Reza Rubel was a BBA student of Independent University, Bangladesh, ...