Shams al-Din (
IPA: /ʃamsaddiːn/) (,
"sun of the faith"
) is an
Arabic personal name or title.
Notable persons with this name are:
10th–13th century
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Shams al-Din Altınapa, Seljuk
atabeg
Atabeg, Atabek, or Atabey is a hereditary title of nobility of Turkic language, Turkic origin, indicating a governor of a nation or province who was subordinate to a monarch and charged with raising the crown prince. The first instance of the ti ...
*Muhammad ibn Ahmad Shams al-Din
al-Maqdisi
Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr, commonly known by the ''Nisba (onomastics), nisba'' al-Maqdisi or al-Muqaddasī, was a medieval Arab geographer, author of ''The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions'' and '' ...
(c. 945–1000), Arab geographer
*Shams al-Din
Ibn Fallus (1194-1240), Arab Egyptian mathematician
*Shams al-Din Muhammad bin Ali, or
Suzani Samarqandi (died 1166), Persian poet
*Shams al-Din
Ildeniz (died ), atabeg of Azerbaijan
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Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Muqaddam (died 1188), Zengid governor of Damascus and Ayyubid emir of Baalbek
*Shams-ud-din
Iltutmish
Shams ud-Din Iltutmish (1192 – 30 April 1236) was the third of the Mamluk kings who ruled the former Ghurid territories in northern India. He was the first Muslim sovereign to rule from Delhi, and is thus considered the effective founder of ...
(1192-1236), Muslim Turkic sultan of Delhi
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Shamsuddin Sabzwari (died 1247), Sufi missionary in southern Punjab
*Shams al-Din Muhammad, or
Shams Tabrizi (1185-1248), Persian Sufi mystic
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Shams al-Din Lu'lu' al-Amini (died 1251), regent of Aleppo
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Shams al-Din 'Ali ibn Mas'ud (died 1255), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
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Ajall Shams al-Din Omar (1211–1279), provincial governor of Yunnan
*Shams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad
Ibn Khallikān (1211–1282), Iraqi Shafi'i Islamic scholar
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Shams al-Din Juvayni (died 1285) vizier and sahib-divan under three Mongol Ilkhans
*Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud
al-Shahrazuri (died c. 1290), Kurdish physician and historian
14th–17th century
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Shams al-Din Muhammad (1257–1310), imam of the Nizari Isma'ili community
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Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi (c. 1250 – c. 1310), astronomer and mathematician from Samarkand
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Shamsuddin Firuz Shah (died 1322), sultan of the Bengali kingdom of Lakhnauti
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Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi
Sheikh Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi or simply al-Dimashqi () (1256–1327) was a medieval Arab geographer, completing his main work in 1300. Born in Damascus—as his name "Dimashqi" implies—he mostly wrote of his native land, the Greater ...
(1256–1327), Arab geographer
*Shams al-Din Abu’Abdallah Muhammad ibn’Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf Lawati al-Tanji
Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta (; 24 February 13041368/1369), was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar. Over a period of 30 years from 1325 to 1354, he visited much of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Iberian Peninsula. Near the end of his life, Ibn ...
(1304-1368), explorer
*Shams-ud-Din
Shah Mir (1300-1342), ruler of Kashmir
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Ali Shams al-Din I (died 1348), leader of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community
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Shams al-Din ibn Fazl Allah (died c. 1348), leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar
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Khwaja Shams al-Din 'Ali (died c. 1352), leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar
*Shams ud din, or
Shams Tabraiz (missionary) (died 1356), Ismaili saint in India
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Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah (died 1358), sultan of Bengal
*Shams al-Din
Ibn Muflih (1308-1361), authority on Hanbali Law
*Shams ud-Din
Amir Kulal (1278-1370), tribal head, scholar and religious figure in Turkistan
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Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah al-Khalili (1320–1380), Syrian astronomer
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Shams al-Din al-Kirmani (1317-1384), Sunni scholar
*Khwaja Shams al-Din Muhammad
Hafez-e Shirazi (1315–1390), Persian lyric poet
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Ali Shams al-Din II (died 1428), leader of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community
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Shams al-Din al-Fanari (1350–1431), Turkish logician, Islamic theologian, and Islamic legal academic
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Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah (1419-1436), ruler of Bengal
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Shams al-Din 'Ali ibn Qutb al-Din (c. 1387 – c. 1438), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
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Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah (died 1481), ruler of Bengal
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Shamsuddin Muhammad Shah III (died 1482), sultan of Bahmani
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Shams ad-Din ibn Muhammad (died 1487), sultan of Adal
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Shamsuddin Muzaffar Shah (died 1494), Abyssinian sultan of Bengal
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Shams al-Din Muhammad (died c. 1494), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
*Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rahman
al-Sakhawi (1428–1497), Egyptian Islamic scholar
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Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi (1440-1515), Sufi Shi'a missionary in Kashmir
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Ali Shams al-Din III (died 1527), leader of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community
*Shamsuddin
Muhammad Khan Sur Shah Ghazi (died 1555), Sultan of Bengal
*Shamsuddin Muhammad
Ataga Khan (died 1562), minister in Mughal court
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Shams al-Din al-Ramli (1513-1596), Egyptian Shafi'i scholar
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Khawaja Shamsuddin Khawafi (died 1600), minister to Emperor Akbar
18th century–present
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Shamseddin Amir-Alaei (1900–1994), Iranian politician and diplomat
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Muhammad Shamsuddeen III
Sultan Muhammad Shamsuddeen Iskander III, , ( Dhivehi: ސުލްޠާން މުޙައްމަދު ޝަމްސުއްދީން; 20 October 1879 – 12 March 1935), son of Ibrahim Nooraddeen and Kakaage Don Goma, was the Sultan of the Maldives first from ...
(1879–1935), Sultan of the Maldives
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Şemsettin Günaltay
Mehmet Şemsettin Günaltay (; 17 July 1883 – 19 October 1961) was a Turkish historian, politician, and Prime Minister of Turkey from 1949 to 1950.
Biography
Günaltay was born 1883 in the Kemaliye town of the Vilayet of Mamuret-ul-Az ...
(1883–1961) prime minister of Turkey
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Şemsettin Mardin, Turkish diplomat
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Abul Kalam Shamsuddin (1897–1978), Bangladeshi journalist and politician
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Abu Jafar Shamsuddin (1911–1989), Bangladeshi author and novelist
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Shamsuddin Ahmed (1920–1971), Bangladeshi surgeon
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Khwaja Shams-ud-Din (1922–1999), Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
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Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926–1997), Bangladeshi author and novelist
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Shamsuddin Qasemi (1935–1996), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician
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Nasri Shamseddine (1927–1983), Lebanese singer and actor
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A. T. M. Shamsuddin (1927-2009), Bangladeshi author
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Khawaja Shamsuddin Azeemi (1927-2025), patriarch of the Sufi Order of Azeemia
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Mohammad Mehdi Shamseddine (1936–2001), Lebanese Twelver Shia Islamic scholar
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Shamsodin Vaezi (born 1936), Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja
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Abdul Aziz Shamsuddin (1938-2020), Malaysian politician
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Samsuddin Ahmed (1945–2020), Bangladeshi politician
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Shamsuddeen Usman (born 1949), Nigerian politician
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Semezdin Mehmedinović (born 1960), Bosnian writer
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Chettithody Shamshuddin (born 1970), Indian cricket umpire
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Mohammad Shamsuddin (born 1983), Bangladeshi sprinter
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Shamsuddin Amiri (born 1985), Afghan footballer
* Şemseddin Sami Efendi, pen-name of
Sami Frashëri (1850–1904), Albanian writer, philosopher and playwright
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Ashari Samsudin (born 1985), Malaysian footballer
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Shamsuddin Ahmed (died 2020), Bangladeshi engineer and former MP
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AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, Bangladeshi
Supreme Court
In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, high (or final) court of appeal, and court of final appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...
judge
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Shamsuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician
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Ali Chamseddine (born 1953), Lebanese physicist
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Muhammad Ali Chamseddine (1942–2022), Lebanese poet and writer
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Chems-Eddine Hafiz
Chems-eddine Mohamed Hafiz (born 28 June 1954 in Algiers) is a Franco-Algerian lawyer. Since 11 January 2020, he has served as rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris.
He is a member of the Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme (CNC ...
(born 1954), Franco-Algerian lawyer
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Chems-Eddine Chitour (born 1944), Algerian scholar
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Chamseddine Rahmani (born 1990), Algerian footballer
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Chamseddine Harrag (born 1992), Algerian footballer
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Chamseddine Dhaouadi (born 1987), Tunisian retired footballer
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Chemseddine Chtibi (born 1982), Moroccan footballer
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Chemseddine Nessakh (born 1988), Algerian footballer
References
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Arabic-language masculine given names
Bangladeshi masculine given names
Masculine given names