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Naiyer Masud
Naiyer Masud (نیّر مسعود) was an Indian Urdu short story writer, scholar, and translator from Lucknow, known for elliptical fiction and awarded the Padma Shri.
Naja
Naja (true cobras) is a genus of hooded venomous elapid snakes, about 35-43 species across Africa and Asia, in four subgenera; African origin, Miocene spread to Asia, hooding and thrice-evolved venom spitting, and WHO category I medical importance.
Naja atra
Naja atra, the Chinese cobra (舟山眼镜蛇), is a venomous elapid snake described by Theodore Cantor in 1842 that ranges across southern China, Taiwan, and northern Vietnam.
Naja kaouthia
Naja kaouthia, the monocled or monocellate cobra (Bengal cobra), is a highly venomous elapid snake of South and Southeast Asia with a single O-shaped hood mark, neurotoxic venom causing paralysis and tissue destruction, and regionally variable venom that limits antivenom effectiveness.
Najaf
Najaf, southern Iraq city housing the Imam Ali Shrine, Wadi al-Salam (world's largest cemetery, 9.17 km²), and the quietist Shia hawza; 12–18 million pilgrims yearly, tourism ~30% of governorate GDP, distinct from Karbala and Qom.
Najaf Khan
Najaf Khan (نجف خان) was a Persian-born commander who led the Mughal armies of Shah Alam II and served as regent from 1779 until his death in 1782.
Najafābād
Najafabad (نجف آباد) is a city in Isfahan Province, Iran, west of Isfahan, founded in the Safavid era around 1022 AH per the Dehkhoda tradition. Population 221,814 in 2011; known for almonds, carpets, groundwater decline, and the Islamic Azad University Najafabad Branch.
Najafgarh
Najafgarh is a town, tehsil, and assembly constituency in South West Delhi, India, named after Mirza Najaf Khan, the Mughal commander who built its fort around 1770.
Najahids
The Najahids (بنو نجاح) were a dynasty of Ethiopian slave soldiers who ruled Zabid and the Tihama coast of Yemen, founded by Najah in 1021 and ending in 1159.
Najam Sethi (نجام عزیز سیٹھی)
Najam Sethi (نجم عزیز سیٹھی) is a Pakistani journalist, founder of The Friday Times and Vanguard Books, host of Aapas Ki Baat, twice imprisoned for press freedom cases, caretaker Punjab chief minister 2013, and twice caretaker PCB chairman.
Najas
Najas (water-nymph, guppy grass) is a cosmopolitan genus of 30-40 submerged aquatic plants in Hydrocharitaceae, formerly Najadaceae; two subgenera, North American origin, water-pollinated, some species invasive aquarium weeds.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (born 1977, Rif, Morocco) is a French Socialist politician, Hollande-era Minister of Women's Rights and government spokesperson (2012–2014) and Minister of National Education (2014–2017), later ONE France director and France terre d'asile president.
Najd (نجد)
Najd (نجد), the central highland plateau of Arabia, is Saudi Arabia's political heartland: bounded by Nafud, Dahna, Hejaz and Empty Quarter, 600–1,200 m high, home of Riyadh and the Al Saud rise.
Najda ibn Amir
Najda ibn Amir (نجدة بن عامر) was a Kharijite leader of the Najdiyya, the faction named after him, who ruled from Yamama across eastern and southern Arabia in the 680s.
Najdat
The Najdat (النجدات) were a Kharijite sect and short-lived state in Arabia founded by Najda ibn Amir al-Hanafi, whose rule reached Bahrayn, Qatif, and Sanaa before collapsing after his murder in 691.
Najee Harris
Najee Harris, NFL running back from Alabama, drafted 24th overall by Pittsburgh in 2021; four straight 1,000-yard Steelers seasons, Pro Bowl rookie, later Chargers and Giants.
Najeeb Halaby
Najeeb Halaby was an American naval aviator who made the first transcontinental jet flight in 1945 and led the Federal Aviation Agency and Pan Am.
Najeeb Muhammad (നജീബ് മുഹമ്മദ്)
Najeeb Muhammad (നജീബ് മുഹമ്മദ്), Kerala labourer from Arattupuzha, real-life subject of Benyamin's novel Aadujeevitham (Goat Days) and the 2024 film; kidnapped in Saudi Arabia 1992, held as an unpaid goatherd, escaped 1995 and deported.
Najeeriii
Najeeriii, real name Najeeri Smart, is a Jamaican dancehall artist from Portmore who broke out in 2023 with "Paddle Boat" and released the album SISU in 2026.
Najeon chilgi (나전칠기)
Najeon chilgi (나전칠기), Korean mother-of-pearl lacquerware, inlays abalone or turban-shell nacre into lacquered wood; produced since Unified Silla, at its peak in Goryeo, a designated intangible cultural heritage craft since 1966.
Najib ibn Maymun al-Wasiti
Najib ibn Maymun al-Wasiti (نجيب بن ميمون الواسطي) was a fifth-century AH hadith transmitter of Herat, titled "musnad of Herat", rated truthful of good hadith, who died in 1095 CE.
Najib M. Rahman
Najib M. Rahman is a British respiratory physician and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Oxford, director of its trials unit, known for the MIST2 and RAMPP pleural disease trials.
Najib Mikati
Najib Mikati, also known as Najib Azmi Mikati (نجيب ميقاتي), is a Lebanese businessman and politician who served three terms as Prime Minister of Lebanon, most recently from 2021 to 2025.
Najib Razak
Najib Razak (محمد نجيب بن عبدالرزاق), sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia 2009–2018, son of Abdul Razak Hussein; 1Malaysia and New Economic Model policies; convicted over the 1MDB scandal, imprisoned 2022, sentence halved by 2024 pardon.
Najib-ud-Daula
Najib-ud-Daula (نجیب الدولہ), born Najib Khan, was a Yusufzai Afghan soldier who became the effective ruler of Delhi after the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761.
Najibabad
Najibabad (نجیب آباد) was a Rohilla Afghan state of the late Mughal period in Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, founded in the mid-eighteenth century by Najib Khan, who built the fort of Pathargarh in 1755.
Najm al-Din al-Katibi
Najm al-Din al-Katibi (نجم الدين الكاتبي) was a thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, logician, and Shafi'i jurist from Qazvin, best known for his widely studied logic handbook, the Shamsiyya.
Najm al-Din Kubra
Najm al-Din Kubra (نجمالدین کبری) was a Sufi master of Khwarazm, born around 1145, who founded the Kubrawiyya order and died in 1221 defending Urgench against Genghis Khan's Mongols.
Najm al-Din Razi
Najm al-Din Razi (نجمالدین رازی), known as Najm al-Din Dāya, was a Persian Sufi master of the Kubrawiyya order, author of the mystical compendium Mirṣād al-ʿibād.
Najm al-farid
Najm al-farid, known in Arabic sources as As'ilat al-Askia wa-ajwibat al-Maghili, is a legal-political treatise in which the jurist al-Maghili answered seven questions from Askia Muhammad of Songhay.