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Nikah halala
Nikah halala (tahlil) is the Islamic-law practice requiring a thrice-divorced woman to marry another man, consummate that marriage, and be divorced before remarrying her first husband; pre-arranged halala is condemned, and in India it remains undecided before a Constitution Bench.
Nikah mut'ah (نكاح المتعة)
Nikah mut'ah (نكاح المتعة), or sigheh, is a fixed-term temporary marriage contract lawful in Twelver Shi'i (Ja'fari) law but void in Sunni law. Both traditions agree it was permitted in early Islam; they dispute whether Muhammad or Caliph Umar prohibited it. It is legally recognized in Iran.
Nikaia, Attica
Nikaia (Νίκαια), formerly Nea Kokkinia, a suburb of Piraeus in southwestern Athens, Greece; refugee settlement founded 1923, renamed 1940, seat of the Municipality of Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Rentis with about 103,000 residents.
Nikaiankh I
Nikaiankh I, also written Nika-ankh, was a local official of Tehne in Upper Egypt during the early Fifth Dynasty, around 2450 BC, serving as Keeper of the King's Property.
Nikaiankh II
Nikaiankh II, also written Nika-ankh II, was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian provincial official whose rock-cut tomb no. 15 at Tehna, one of the Fraser tombs, is noted for its large engaged statues.
Nikaitchuq Oil and Gas Field
Nikaitchuq is an offshore oil field in shallow Beaufort Sea waters off Alaska's North Slope near Oliktok Point, producing heavy oil since 2011 with reserves of 220 million barrels.
Nikalmati
Nikalmati, also known as Nikkal-mati, was a Hittite great queen, or Tawananna, of the Middle Hittite kingdom, wife of King Tudhaliya and mother of the later great queen Ašmunikal.
Nikamma (निकम्मा)
Nikamma (निकम्मा), 2022 Hindi action-comedy remake of Middle Class Abbayi, directed by Sabbir Khan, starring Abhimanyu Dassani, Shilpa Shetty, Shirley Setia; released 17 June 2022, flopped with ₹2.19 crore India net, later on Netflix.
Nikandre Kore
The Nikandre Kore is a life-size marble statue of a woman dedicated on Delos in the mid-seventh century BCE, the earliest surviving monumental kore, now in Athens.
Nikandu
Nikandu (நிகண்டு) is the traditional Tamil thesaurus, a verse lexicon grouping words by semantic affinity rather than alphabetically. The tradition began with the ninth-century Tivākaram and continued into the twentieth century.
NiKang Therapeutics
NiKang Therapeutics is a private, clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, developing small-molecule cancer drugs against historically difficult-to-drug targets such as HIF2α and CDK2.
Nikara
Nikara, also rendered Nikare, was the ninth pharaoh of Egypt's Eighth Dynasty during the First Intermediate Period, around the 22nd century BC, known only from the Abydos King List.
Nikare (Dynasty 8)
Nikare, also Nikare I, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Memphite Seventh/Eighth Dynasty during the early First Intermediate Period, known only from the Abydos King List.
Nikare II
Nikare II is a poorly attested pharaoh of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, assigned by some reconstructions to the Theban Sixteenth Dynasty, though his membership is disputed.
Nike (Monument at Marathon)
Nike (Monument at Marathon): reconstructed crowning statue of a roughly 10 m Pentelic Ionic column on the plain of Marathon, identified by Eugene Vanderpool in 1966, commemorating the Athenian victory of 490 BC and matching Pausanias's white marble trophy.
Nike (Νίκη) (mythology)
Nike (Νίκη), Greek goddess of victory, Roman Victoria; daughter of Pallas and Styx, sister of Zelos, Kratos, and Bia. Wingless in the Athenian Athena Nike cult, winged from Archermos' Delos statue c. 550 BCE.
Nike Air Max
Nike Air Max is Nike's line of shoes with visible pressurized Air cushioning, beginning with the Tinker Hatfield-designed Air Max 1 released March 26, 1987, inspired by the Centre Pompidou and followed by numbered models from the Air Max 90 to the Dn8.
Nike Air Yeezy
Nike Air Yeezy: Kanye West's two-model Nike signature sneaker line, Air Yeezy 1 (2009, $215) and Air Yeezy 2 (2012, $245), debuted at the 2008 Grammys; ended when West moved to Adidas in 2013.
Nike Award
The Nike Award (Nagroda Nike) is Poland's principal literary prize, awarded annually since 1997 for the best book of the preceding year written in Polish, in any genre.
Nike Borzov
Nike Borzov, also known as Naik Borzov or Nikolai Borzov (Найк Борзов), is a Russian rock singer-songwriter born in 1972, solo since 1992 and known for "Loshadka".
Nike Cortez
Nike Cortez: low-profile running shoe designed by Bill Bowerman, first sold as the Onitsuka Tiger Cortez in 1967 and as the Nike Cortez in 1972; known for its cushioned midsole patent, Los Angeles Chicano cultural ties, and current lifestyle-sneaker status.
Nike Fossae
Nike Fossae: a system of narrow linear depressions (fossae) on Venus, 800 km across, centered at 59.5S 340E in quadrangle V-61; IAU-approved 1991, named for the Greek goddess of victory.
Nike laser
The Nike laser is a krypton fluoride excimer laser at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., opened in 1995 to study direct-drive inertial confinement fusion.
Nike Mag
Nike Mag (Nike Air Mag): limited-edition sneaker recreating Marty McFly's power-lacing shoe from Back to the Future Part II (1989); charity releases of 1,500 pairs in 2011 and 89 self-lacing pairs in 2016 for Parkinson's research.
Nike sweatshops
Nike sweatshops: the labor controversy over wages, hours, and conditions at Nike's contract factories, sparked by 1991 reporting on Indonesian and Asian suppliers, examined through audit studies, the Hansae Vietnam case, and 2025 Cambodia wage findings.
Nike-Cajun
The Nike-Cajun, designated PWN-3, was a two-stage American sounding rocket combining a Nike booster with a Cajun upper stage, flown for upper-atmosphere research from 1956 to 1976.
Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. (NYSE: NKE), founded as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1964 by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman, is the Beaverton, Oregon-based world's largest seller of athletic footwear and apparel, with fiscal 2026 revenue of $46.4 billion, Converse as a subsidiary brand, and the Swoosh logo.
Nikema Williams
Nikema Williams (born 1978) is the Democratic U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th Congressional District since 2021, succeeding John Lewis, and chaired the Democratic Party of Georgia 2019–2025, resigning in March 2025 after the 2024 election.
Nikephoros II of Constantinople
Nikephoros II of Constantinople (Greek: Νικηφόρος II), surname Pamphilos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from about 1260 to 1261, governing the church from Nicaea while the city remained under Latin rule.
Nikephoros II Phokas
Nikephoros II Phokas (Νικηφόρος Β΄ Φωκᾶς) was Byzantine emperor from 963 until his murder in 969, called the "White Death of the Saracens" for his victories over the Arabs.