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Habbari dynasty
The Habbari dynasty (حباری خاندان) was an Arab dynasty that ruled most of Sindh from its capital at Mansura, founded by Umar al-Habbari, the Abbasid governor of Sindh.
Habbo
Habbo (formerly Habbo Hotel) is a Finnish social virtual world by Sulake, launched as Hotelli Kultakala in August 2000, where users chat, decorate rooms, and buy virtual furniture; distinct from Hotel Hideaway and Habbo Hotel: Origins.
Habeas corpus
Habeas corpus, Latin for "that you have the body," is the great writ directing a jailer to bring a detainee before a court to test the legality of detention; rooted in English common law and the 1679 Habeas Corpus Act, enshrined in the U.S. Suspension Clause.
Habeas Corpus Act 1679
Habeas Corpus Act 1679 (31 Cha 2 c. 2), English statute compelling jailers to produce prisoners before courts within three days and certify detention causes, with £100/£200 penalties; a procedural landmark, not the creation of the writ.
Habeas corpus in the United States
Habeas corpus in the United States, the great writ, lets detainees challenge detention legality; protected by the Suspension Clause, expanded by the 1867 Act, limited by AEDPA 1996, and central to post-2025 immigration detention litigation.
Habeebi (film)
Habeebi (ஹபீபி) is a 2026 Tamil romantic drama directed by Meera Kathiravan, starring Kasthuri Raja, Esha, and Malavika Manoj, about a romance in a Tamil Muslim handloom-weaving town near Tirunelveli across four decades; released 12 June 2026, CBFC U, streaming on Sony LIV from 25 September 2026.
Haben Girma
Haben Girma (born 1988) is an American disability rights lawyer, author, and speaker, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School (2013), winner of NFB v. Scribd, and author of the 2019 memoir Haben.
Habenaria
Habenaria, also called bog orchids, a large genus of about 600 to over 800 terrestrial tuberous orchids, pantropical to southern Siberia, polyphyletic in current phylogenies and split into Asian-Australian and African-American-Asian clades.
Haber process
The Haber process, known industrially as the Haber-Bosch process, combines nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia, the dominant method of industrial nitrogen fixation and source of nearly all synthetic fertilizer.
Haberma tingkok
Haberma tingkok (汀角攀树蟹), Ting Kok Tree Climbing Crab, is a sesarmid micro-mangrove crab described in 2017 from Hong Kong, the only known arboreal Haberma species, climbing Kandelia obovata mangroves at 1.5–1.8 m and recorded only from Tolo Harbour.
Habesha peoples
Habesha (ሓበሻ) is a pan-ethnic identifier for highland peoples of Ethiopia and Eritrea, chiefly Tigrinya, Tigray, and Amhara groups; attested from Ezana's 4th-century inscription, contested as a unitary identity, prominent in diasporas.
Habi
Habi is a Bogotá-based, data-driven residential real estate platform founded in 2019 that buys, renovates, and resells used homes in Colombia and Mexico, becoming a unicorn in 2022.
Habia
Habia (ant-tanagers) is a genus of Neotropical Cardinalidae passerines established by Blyth in 1840, including the Red-crowned, Red-throated, Black-cheeked, Sooty, and Crested ant-tanagers; some classifications move four species to Driophlox.
Habib
Habib, born Habib Mohebian (حبیب), was an Iranian pop singer-songwriter whose self-written 1977 album Marde Tanhaye Shab made him famous before he left Iran after the 1979 revolution.
Habib al-Siyar
Habib al-Siyar (حبیب السیر) is a Persian universal history by Khwandamir, completed in 1524, spanning creation to Shah Isma'il I and regarded as the major chronicle of early Safavid Iran.
Habib Ali Kiddie
Habib Ali Kiddie (1929–1987), Pakistani field hockey left half, Pakistan Customs player; Olympic silver 1956 and gold 1960, Asian Games golds 1958 and 1962.
Habib Bank Limited
Habib Bank Limited (HBL) is a Pakistani commercial bank headquartered in Karachi, founded in Bombay in 1941 and now majority owned by the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development.
Habib Bourguiba (حبيب بورقيبة)
Habib Bourguiba (حبيب بورقيبة), Tunisian lawyer and Neo-Destour founder, led independence from France in 1956 and was Tunisia's first president 1957-1987, enacting the Personal Status Code before his 1987 removal by Ben Ali.
Habib Diallo
Habib Diallo (Mouhamadou Habibou Diallo), Senegalese centre-forward born 1995 in Thiès; Génération Foot and Metz product, Strasbourg and Al-Shabab striker, AFCON winner 2021 and 2025, now at Le Mans.
Habib Esmail
Habib Esmail (1878–) was a Khoja Muslim merchant of Bombay who founded the House of Habib, one of Pakistan's largest family-owned conglomerates, whose sons established Habib Bank in 1941.
Habib Haddad
Habib Haddad (حبيب حداد) is a Lebanese entrepreneur and venture investor who founded Yamli, sold to Yahoo! in 2012, led Wamda, and runs the MIT-affiliated E14 Fund.
Habib ibn Maslama
Habib ibn Maslama (حبيب بن مسلمة) was an Arab general of the early Islamic conquests, born at Mecca, who conquered Armenia and served as its governor under Mu'awiya I.
Habib Jalib
Habib Jalib (حبیب جالب), pen name of Habib Ahmed, was a Pakistani revolutionary Urdu poet known for resistance poetry against military rule, including his 1962 poem "Dastoor".
Habib Wali Mohammad
Habib Wali Mohammad (حبیب ولی محمد) was a Pakistani ghazal singer known for "Lagta nahi hai dil mera" and "Aaj Janay ki zid na karo".
Habiba Ghribi
Habiba Ghribi is a Tunisian middle- and long-distance runner and 3000 meters steeplechase world champion. She won gold at the 2012 London Olympics after a winner's disqualification.
Habibi
Habibi (Habîbî, حبيبى) was a 15th-century Azerbaijani poet who served the Aqqoyunlu and Safavid courts, won the title 'king of poets' from Shah Ismail, and influenced Fuzuli.
Habibi City
Habibi City is the August 10, 2026 New York Magazine special issue, cover story by Zaina Arafat, on New York's SWANA cultural scene, which sparked major controversy over its exclusion of Jews and Israelis and framing of Zionism.
Habibti (album)
HABIBTI (Habibti) is Drake's eleventh studio album, surprise-released May 15, 2026 with ICEMAN and Maid of Honour; an 11-track, 36-minute R&B-leaning record on OVO/Republic that debuted at number two on the Billboard 200.
Habibullah Kalakani
Habibullah Kalakani, nicknamed Bacha-ye Saqao, was a Tajik bandit leader from north of Kabul who seized the capital in January 1929, deposed King Amanullah Khan, and ruled as emir until October.
Habibullah Khan (حبیبالله خان)
Habibullah Khan (حبیبالله خان, 1872–1919) was Emir of Afghanistan 1901–1919, son of Abdur Rahman Khan, who initiated modernization: Habibiya School (1903), military school (1909), press reforms, WWI neutrality; murdered in 1919, succeeded by Amanullah.