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Nasr II
Nasr II (نصر بن احمد) was the Samanid amir of Transoxiana and Khorasan from 914 to 943, whose reign is regarded as the golden age of the Samanid state.
Nasr Oil Field
Nasr Oil Field, also called Al Nasr, is an offshore oil field in Abu Dhabi waters, discovered in 1971 and producing first oil in 2015.
Nasrallah Munshi
Nasrallah Munshi (نصرالله منشی) was a Persian secretary at the Ghaznavid court who rendered the Arabic Kalila wa Dimna into ornate Persian prose between 1143 and 1146.
Nasrallah Munshi's Kalila wa Dimna
Nasrallah Munshi's Kalila wa Dimna (Kalileh o Demneh) is Nasr-Allah Munshi's 1142 Persian adaptation of the Arabic fables, the founding work of Persian artistic prose.
Nasrat Haqparast
Nasrat Haqparast, German-born Afghan UFC lightweight (born Hamburg, 1995; fights out of Rabat, Morocco), 18-7 record with 10 knockouts, trains at Tristar Gym Montreal under Firas Zahabi, represents Morocco since being barred from the Afghan flag.
Nasrat Parsa
Nasrat Parsa (نصرت پارسا) was an Afghan pop singer, born in Kabul around 1968, who released ten albums blending pop, ghazal, and classical Afghan styles before his death in Vancouver in 2005.
Nasreddin
Nasreddin (Nasreddin Hoca, Molla Nasreddin, Juha) is a wise-fool trickster of Muslim folklore told in thousands of anecdotes from the Balkans to China; Turkish tradition dates him 1208-1284 in Akşehir, and UNESCO inscribed his anecdote-telling tradition in 2022.
Nasreen Mohamedi
Nasreen Mohamedi (1937–1990) was an Indian artist known for monochromatic, line-based abstract drawings on paper, regarded as one of the significant artists of post-Independence India.
Nasri (musician)
Nasri, also known as Nasri Atweh, is a Canadian singer and songwriter, lead vocalist of the band Magic!, whose hit "Rude" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014.
Nasri Nazm
Nasri nazm (نثری نظم, "prose poem") is a genre of modern Urdu poetry written in paragraphs rather than verse lines, free from meter, rhyme, and refrain.
Nasrid art
Nasrid art is the art and architecture of the Nasrid dynasty of Granada (1232–1492), the last Muslim rulers of Iberia, best known for the Alhambra.
Nasrid coinage
Nasrid coinage (دينار غرناطي) is the gold, silver, and copper money of the Nasrid emirs of Granada, struck from 1238 until the kingdom fell to Castile in 1492.
Nasrid dynasty (بنو نصر)
Nasrid dynasty (بنو نصر, Banu Nasr), also called Nasrids of Granada, the last Muslim dynasty of Iberia, ruling the Emirate of Granada 1238–1492; founded by Muhammad I (Ibn al-Ahmar), a Castilian tributary state known for the Alhambra.
Nasrin Sotoudeh
Nasrin Sotoudeh (نسرین ستوده), born 1963, is an Iranian human rights lawyer, 2012 Sakharov Prize laureate with Jafar Panahi and 2026 Václav Havel Prize winner, sentenced to 38 years and 148 lashes for defending women's rights.
Nasrullah Khan
Nasrullah Khan, also known as Amir Nasrullo Bahodirkhan (1806-1860), was the fifth Manghit ruler of the Emirate of Bukhara, reigning from 1827 until 1860 and nicknamed Amir the butcher.
Nasry Asfura
Nasry Asfura is a Honduran politician serving as President of Honduras for the 2026-2030 period, after winning the 2025 election and serving as mayor of Tegucigalpa from 2014 to 2022.
Nassar
Nassar (Arabic نصَّار, naṣṣār, "victorious") is an Arabic surname and rare masculine given name borne by Muslims and Christians; about 210,000 people worldwide, most in Egypt, with 3,526 recorded in the 2020 US Census.
Nassar (நாசர்) (actor)
Nassar (நாசர்), born 1958 in Chengalpattu, is a Tamil-Telugu film actor, director, and dubbing artist; debut in Balachander's Kalyana Agathigal (1985), over 700 films including Nayakan and Baahubali.
Nassariidae
Nassariidae, the nassa mud snails or mud whelks (Nassarius and relatives), are a family of scavenging marine gastropods in Buccinoidea with over 600 extant species, dated to a 120 MYA Lower Cretaceous origin and revised into seven subfamilies after molecular phylogenetics.
Nassau (lunar crater)
Nassau is a 75.80-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's far side at 24.91° S, 177.34° E, IAU-named in 1970 for American astronomer Jason John Nassau (1892–1965), with satellite craters Nassau D, F, and Y.
Nassau County, New York
Nassau County, New York: suburban county on Long Island east of New York City, created January 1, 1899 from Queens County's towns of Hempstead, North Hempstead, and Oyster Bay; county seat Mineola; population 1,395,774 (2020).
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Nassau Coliseum), Uniondale NY arena opened 1972; New York Islanders home 1973-2021 with four Stanley Cups; renovated 2017 for $180 million; now home of the Long Island Nets, slated for Las Vegas Sands redevelopment.
Nassau, Bahamas
Nassau, Bahamas: capital and largest city on New Providence island; founded as Charles Towne 1695, renamed for William III of Orange-Nassau; 296,732 island residents (2022 census); record 5.6 million cruise passengers in 2024; UNESCO Creative City known for Junkanoo.
NASSCOM
NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies) is India's trade association for the IT-BPM industry. Founded in 1988, it has about 3,000 member firms.
Nassef Sawiris
Nassef Sawiris is an Egyptian billionaire industrialist, the youngest son of Orascom founder Onsi Sawiris, who controls OCI Global and Orascom Construction and co-owns Aston Villa.
Nassellaria
Nassellaria (Monopylea) are an order of marine radiolarian protists with solid opaline-silica skeletons and a single basal opening of the central capsule; about 430 species, Devonian origin ca. 420 Ma, key in paleo-environmental reconstruction.
Nassen Technology (拿森科技)
Nassen Technology (拿森科技), legally NASN Intelligent Tech, is a Chinese chassis-by-wire supplier founded in 2016 in Hangzhou, a top-three domestic brake-by-wire provider listed in Hong Kong in 2026.
Nasser Al Huqbani
Nasser Al Huqbani is a Saudi healthcare executive who leads Health Holding Company, the state company running Saudi Arabia's public health system, since January 2023.
Nasser Al-Attiyah
Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah, Qatari driver born 1970, six-time Dakar Rally car winner (Volkswagen, Mini, Toyota, Dacia), record 20 Middle East Rally Championship titles, 50 Dakar stage wins, and London 2012 Olympic skeet bronze medalist.
Nasser Al-Khelaifi (ناصر بن غانم الخليفي)
Nasser bin Ghanim Al-Khelaifi (ناصر بن غانم الخليفي), Qatari executive; president of PSG since 2011, chairman of QSI and beIN Media Group, EFC chairman and UEFA ExCo member; led PSG to the 2025 Champions League; acquitted in FIFAgate.