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Imam Shamil (Шамил)

Imam Shamil (Шамил), also Sheikh Shamil or the Caucasian Eagle, was the third imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1834–1859), an Avar Naqshbandi leader who united Dagestan and Chechnya in a 25-year resistance against Russia, surrendered at Gunib in 1859, and died in Medina in 1871.

Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Biosphere Reserve

Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Biosphere Reserve (محمية الإمام تركي بن عبدالله), a UNESCO MAB site designated September 2025 in north-central Saudi Arabia; a royal reserve since 2018, second-largest in the Kingdom, with sand gazelle, Arabian oryx, and houbara.

İmâm-ı Şehriyârî Mahmud Efendi

İmâm-ı Şehriyârî Mahmud Efendi was an Ottoman scholar who served as şeyhülislâm from 1713 to 1714, taking his epithet from his service as imam to Sultan Mustafa II.

İmâm-ı Sultânî Hayrullah Efendi

İmâm-ı Sultânî Hayrullah Efendi, born Hasan Hayrullah in Istanbul around 1834, was an Ottoman şeyhülislam who signed the deposition fetvas of sultans Abdülaziz and Murad V in 1876.

İmâm-ı Sultânî Mehmed Efendi

İmâm-ı Sultânî Mehmed Efendi (died 1728) was an Ottoman scholar who served twice as şeyhülislam, the Ottoman state's chief mufti, briefly in 1695 and again from 1703 to 1704.

Imam-ul-Haq (امام الحق)

Imam-ul-Haq (امام الحق), Pakistani left-handed opening batter, nephew of Inzamam-ul-Haq; scored 100 on ODI debut vs Sri Lanka in 2017, played 2019 and 2023 World Cups, and faced a 2026 PCB disciplinary inquiry.

Imamate of Futa Jallon

The Imamate of Futa Jallon (إمارة فوتا جالون) was a Fulbe theocratic state in the Futa Jallon highlands, ruled by elected almamis from 1725 to 1896.

Imamate of Futa Toro

The Imamate of Futa Toro was a state of Torodbe clerics in the Senegal River valley, founded in 1776 and ruled by almamis until French occupation.

Imamiyya

The Imamiyya (الإمامية) were the Shi'i community following a line of twelve Alid imams descended from al-Husayn, the twelfth held hidden from 874, later known as the Twelvers.

İmamkullu relief

The İmamkullu relief is a Hittite rock relief of probably the 13th century BCE, carved on a boulder near İmamkulu village in Kayseri Province, Turkey.

Iman (model)

Iman (born Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, 1955, Mogadishu) is a Somali-American supermodel, muse to Yves Saint Laurent, wife of David Bowie, and founder of IMAN Cosmetics in 1994.

Iman (إِيمَان) (Islam)

Iman (إِيمَان), or faith, is in Islamic theology the belief, affirmation, and action by which a person counts as a believer, distinct from islam and ihsan.

Iman Ali

Iman Ali (ایمان علی), born 1980 in Lahore, is a Pakistani actress and model who debuted in Khuda Kay Liye (2007), won a Lux Style Award for it, and later appeared in Bol, Mah e Mir, and Tich Button.

Imán Califato Independiente (group)

Imán Califato Independiente, also known as Imán, was a Spanish progressive rock band formed in Madrid in 1976 and active until 1980, releasing two cult albums on CBS España.

Iman Fandi

Iman Fandi (born 2000) is a Singaporean singer-songwriter and model, daughter of footballer Fandi Ahmad and Wendy Jacobs; debut single Timeframe 2021, Spotify EQUAL 2024 ambassador, and independent debut EP Afterglow in 2026.

Iman Jodeh

Iman Jodeh is an American Democratic politician representing Aurora, Colorado in the Colorado Senate, and the first Muslim and first Palestinian elected to the Colorado legislature.

Iman Shumpert

Iman Shumpert is an American former NBA guard known for perimeter defense who played for the Knicks and Cavaliers and won the 2016 championship with Cleveland.

Iman Vellani

Iman Vellani (born 2002, Karachi) is a Pakistani-Canadian actress and comic writer, the MCU's Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel in Ms. Marvel (2022), The Marvels (2023), and Marvel Zombies (2025), and author of Image Comics' Chachu.

Imane Khelif (إيمان خليف)

Imane Khelif (إيمان خليف), born in 1999, is an Algerian boxer who won gold in women's welterweight at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the first for an Algerian woman.

Imani Hakim

Imani Hakim, also known as Imani A. Hakim, is an American actress born 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio, known for Tonya in Everybody Hates Chris, Gabby Douglas in a 2014 Lifetime biopic, and Dana in Apple TV+'s Mythic Quest.

Imani Lewis

Imani Lewis (born 1999, New York City) is an American actress and Grammy-winning songwriter known for Aniyah in Eighth Grade, Calliope Burns in Netflix's First Kill, Charmaine in Hightown, and Jaz in Sundance's Ricky.

Imanol Pradales

Imanol Pradales Gil, born in 1975, is a Spanish politician serving since 2024 as Lehendakari, President of the Basque Country, leading a PNV and PSE-EE coalition government.

Imants Ziedonis

Imants Ziedonis (1933–2013) was a Latvian poet and prose writer, one of the most widely read Latvian poets of the late 20th century, creator of the short prose form he called epiphanies.

Imanu

Imanu is the alias of Dutch drum & bass producer Jonathan Immanuel Kievit, formerly Signal, who released his debut album Unfold on Deadbeats in 2022.

Imany

Imany, the stage name of French singer-songwriter Nadia Mladjao, works in folk, soul, and blues, and reached No. 1 across Europe with the 2016 remix of "Don't Be So Shy".

IMAP (spacecraft)

IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA heliophysics observatory that launched in 2025 and orbits the Sun-Earth L1 point, mapping the heliosphere's boundary and providing early warning of harmful space radiation.

Imapinua Planitia

Imapinua Planitia is a 2,100-km-diameter lowland plain (planitia) on Venus at 60°S, 142°E, named in 1997 after an East Greenland Eskimo sea mistress and lying in a trough concentric to Artemis Chasma.

iMatGen

iMatGen (image-based materials generator) is a 2019 variational autoencoder framework for inverse design of inorganic solid-state materials, encoding crystals as invertible 3D image grids and demonstrated on vanadium oxides.

Imatinib

Imatinib (Gleevec, Glivec, STI-571) is the first BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitor, FDA-approved in 2001 for CML and later Ph+ ALL, GIST, and other cancers; generic since 2016.

Imation

Imation Corp. was an American data storage company formed in 1996 as a spin-off of 3M, selling removable media under the Imation, Memorex, and TDK Life on Record brands.