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Nupur Sharma (नुपुर शर्मा)

Nupur Sharma (नुपुर शर्मा), Indian lawyer and BJP national spokesperson (2020-2022), suspended June 5, 2022 over televised remarks on Prophet Muhammad, prompting Gulf diplomatic backlash and FIRs later transferred by the Supreme Court to Delhi Police.

Nur al-Din Mahmud

Nur al-Din Mahmud (نور الدين محمود زنكي) was the Zengid ruler of Aleppo from 1146 and Damascus from 1154, who unified Muslim Syria and died in 1174.

Nur al-Din Muhammad

Nur al-Din Muhammad (نور الدين محمد بن قرا أرسلان) was an Artuqid ruler of Hisn Kayfa, son of Qara Arslan, whose line shifted from Zangid to Ayyubid overlordship.

Nur al-Din's capture of Damascus (1154)

Nur al-Din's capture of Damascus (استيلاء نور الدين على دمشق) was the annexation of the Burid emirate in 1154, uniting Muslim Syria and severing its alliance with the Crusaders.

Sep 24, 2026

Nur al-Din's conquest of Egypt

Nur al-Din's conquest of Egypt (نورالدین و فتح مصر) was the takeover of Fatimid Egypt by Syrian armies under Shirkuh and Saladin between 1164 and 1169.

Nur al-Din's madrasa and waqf policy

Nur al-Din's madrasa and waqf policy (سياسة نور الدين في المدارس والأوقاف) was the program of endowment-funded Sunni madrasas and hospitals built by Zengid ruler Nur al-Din across Syria and the Jazira, 1146–1174.

Sep 24, 2026

Nur Bakhshi Sufi order

The Nur Bakhshi Sufi order (سلسلہ نوربخشیہ) is a Sufi order founded in the fifteenth century by Sayyid Muhammad Nurbakhsh to reconcile Sunni and Shi'i teachings.

Sep 24, 2026

Nur ibn Mujahid

Nur ibn Mujahid (نور بن مجاهد) was a Muslim ruler of Harar, nephew and successor of Imam Ahmad Gragn, who killed Emperor Galawdewos in 1559.

Nur Jahan

Nur Jahan (نور جہاں), born Mihr-un-Nisa (1577–1645), last wife of Mughal emperor Jahangir; the only Mughal woman with coins struck in her name, she effectively ruled the empire 1611–1627 through her family junta before Shah Jahan confined her in Lahore.

Nur Khan (نور خان)

Air Marshal Malik Nur Khan (نور خان, 1923–2011), Pakistani air chief during the 1965 war, PIA managing director who made the airline the first Asian jet operator, and sports administrator who led Pakistan hockey, cricket, and squash to international titles.

Nur Muhammad Taraki (نور محمد ترکي)

Nur Muhammad Taraki (نور محمد ترکي; نورمحمد تره‌کی), Pashtun novelist and PDPA general secretary, led Afghanistan's 1978 Saur Revolution, ruled about 14 months, pushed Marxist reforms, was ousted and killed by Hafizullah Amin in 1979, precipitating the Soviet invasion.

Nur Qutb Alam

Nur Qutb Alam (نور قطب عالم) was a Chishti Sufi shaikh of Pandua in Bengal, son and successor of Shaikh Ala al-Haq, who wrote urging Jaunpur's sultan to invade Bengal against Raja Ganesha.

Nur-Adad

Nur-Adad, also written Nūr-Adad, was the eighth king of the Larsa dynasty in southern Iraq, reigning 16 years from 1865 to 1850 BC and known for temple building at Ur and Eridu.

Nur-ahum

Nur-ahum (Nūr-aḫum) was an early governor (ensi) of the Mesopotamian city-state of Eshnunna around 2000 BC, known almost entirely from seal inscriptions found at Tell Asmar.

Nur-ili

Nur-ili was a king of Assyria of the early Middle Assyrian period, recorded as entry no. 63 of the Assyrian King List, son of Enlil-nasir I, ruling 12 years.

Nûr-Mêr

Nûr-Mêr, also written Niwar-Mêr, was the fourth šakkanakku, or military governor, of Mari on the middle Euphrates in the late 3rd millennium BC, son of Išmaʿ-Dagan and brother-successor of Išdub-El.

Nur-Sin family

The Nur-Sin family was a private Babylonian commercial family of the late Neo-Babylonian period, known from 223 cuneiform contracts and letters dated 603 to 507 BC.

Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (ぬらりひょんの孫)

Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (ぬらりひょんの孫, Nurarihyon no Mago) is Hiroshi Shiibashi's 2008-2012 Weekly Shonen Jump manga (218 chapters, 25 volumes) about quarter-yokai Rikuo Nura, heir to Nurarihyon's Nura clan, adapted by Studio Deen into two anime seasons.

Nurabad

Nurabad (نور آباد, Nūrābād): name of several places, chiefly Nurabad-e Mamasani, a city in Fars, Iran, near the Tol-e Nurabad mound (occupied 6000 BC to 50 BC) and the Parthian-or-Sasanian Mil-i Azhdaha tower; also places in Qom, Khuzestan, Samarkand, and Morena, India.

Nuraghe

Nuraghe (plural nuraghi): Bronze and Iron Age dry-stone truncated-cone towers with corbelled chambers, unique to Sardinia; over 7,000 known, built c. 1600–1150 BC, exemplified by UNESCO-listed Su Nuraxi di Barumini.

Nuraghe Antigori

Nuraghe Antigori, Sarroch (Cagliari), Sardinia: a Bronze Age nuragic complex built around 1700 BC, fortified with towers and curtain walls, famous for Mycenaean pottery from the Argolid, Crete, and Cyprus.

Nuraghe Appiu

Nuraghe Appiu, Villanova Monteleone, Sardinia: a complex nuraghe with a bastion and an attached village of about 200 huts, dated to the early Iron Age (900-800 BC), on Italy's UNESCO tentative list.

Nuraghe Armungia

Nuraghe Armungia is a single-tower Bronze Age nuraghe of the Nuragic civilization, standing among the houses of Armungia village in the Gerrei subregion of southeastern Sardinia, Italy.

Nuraghe Arrubiu

Nuraghe Arrubiu, known as the Red Giant, is a Bronze Age nuraghe near Orroli in Sardinia, the only known five-towered, pentalobate nuraghe, built around the 14th century BC.

Nuraghe Bruncu Maduli o Bruncu Madugui

Nuraghe Bruncu Maduli o Bruncu Madugui: a Middle Bronze Age protonuraghe (corridor nuraghe) on the Giara di Gesturi, Sardinia, with a Final Bronze Age hut village; excavated by Giovanni Lilliu in 1962, restored in 2022.

Nuraghe Coa de Serra

Nuraghe Coa de Serra (Coa 'e Serra, Co'e Sèrra) is a Bronze Age nuragic complex at 511 m on the Golgo plateau, Baunei, Sardinia: two limestone towers linked by a flat-roofed corridor plus a trapezoidal building, with a nearby nuragic village.