Nasir al-Din

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Nasir al-Din
Gendermasculine
Language(s)
Arabic
Origin
Meaningdefender of the faith
Other names
Variant form(s)Nasruddin, Naseeruddin, Nasiruddin, Nasir ad-Din, Nasir ud-Din, Naser el-Din
Related namesNasir, Nasrallah

Nasir al-Din (

Arabic: نصیر الدین or ناصرالدین or نصر الدين, 'defender of the faith'), was originally a honorific title and is a masculine given name and surname of Arabic origin. There are many variant spellings in English due to transliteration including Nasruddin, and Nasiruddin
. Notable people with the title or name include:

Politics and government

Scholars and writers

  • Sayyed Nasir-ud-deen
    Abu Yusuf Bin Saamaan
    (1038–1067 CE), Sufi Saint
  • Sheykh Nasreddin Abul Hakayik Mahmud bin Ahmed al-Hoyi, or
    Ahi Evren
    (1169–1261), Turkish Muslim preacher
  • Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201–1274), Persian scientist, mathematician, philosopher, physician and theologian
  • Nāṣir ad-Dīn al-Albānī, Major Islamic scholar and Muhaddith.
  • Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai (born 1917), Pakistani writer and poet
  • Naseeruddin Naseer Gilani (1949–2009), a Pakistani poet and Islamic scholar of the Chishti Sufi order
  • Nasreddin Lebatelier
    , pseudonym of Yahyah Michot (fl. from 1995), Belgian Muslim writer

Sports

Other people