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Sulayman Bal

Sulayman Bal (سليمان بال), also written Thierno Souleymane Baal, was a Torodbe scholar from Futa Toro who led the revolution of 1770–1776 that founded the theocratic Almamiyat.

Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik

Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik was the seventh Umayyad caliph, ruling 715 to 717. He oversaw the conquest of Tabaristan and the massive 717–718 expedition against Constantinople.

Sulayman ibn al-Hasan

Sulayman ibn al-Hasan, called Soleiman Hacen by João de Barros, was a Shirazi sultan of Kilwa who seized power from his cousin and conquered much of the Swahili Coast.

Sulayman ibn Harb

Sulayman ibn Harb (سليمان بن حرب) was a hadith scholar and memorizer of Basra who served as qadi of Mecca under the caliph al-Ma'mun and died in 839.

Sulayman Pasha al-Azm

Sulayman Pasha al-Azm (سليمان باشا العظم) was an Ottoman governor of Damascus from the Azm family, serving 1734–1738 and 1741–1743, and commanding the Hajj pilgrimage caravan from Syria.

Sulayman Pasha the Great

Sulayman Pasha the Great (Georgian: სულეიმან ბუიუქი) was a Georgian Mamluk who governed the Ottoman pashalik of Baghdad from 1780 until his death in 1802.

Sulaymaniyah

Sulaymaniyah (Slemani, السليمانية), second-largest city of Iraq's Kurdistan Region after Erbil; founded 1784 by Ibrahim Pasha Baban, a Kurdish cultural center of about 1.5 million people with a semi-arid climate and growing water stress.

Sulaymaniyah Governorate

Sulaymaniyah Governorate (Parêzgay Silêmanî, السليمانية) is a Kurdistan Region governorate in eastern Iraq, capital Sulaymaniyah city; 21,071 km², PUK-governed, industrial and agricultural, with Halabja split off in 2014.

Sulbactam

Sulbactam is an irreversible beta-lactamase inhibitor and antibiotic developed by Pfizer, marketed since 1986 with ampicillin as Unasyn and, unusually for a beta-lactamase inhibitor, active against Acinetobacter.

Sulbactam-durlobactam

Sulbactam-durlobactam (XACDURO) is a co-packaged IV antibiotic for HABP/VABP from susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex; FDA-approved May 2023, IDSA-preferred for CRAB with a carbapenem, non-inferior to colistin in ATTACK.

Sulci

Sulci, also Sulky or Sulcis (Phoenician Sulki), was a Phoenician colony on Sant'Antioco island off Sardinia, founded in the 8th century BC and later a Roman municipium.

Sulci Gordii

Sulci Gordii, a 400-km-wide corrugated terrain of parallel hills and valleys on Mars east of Olympus Mons, an IAU-named (1976) aureole landslide deposit with water- and lava-carved channels and geologically recent activity.

Sulconazole

Sulconazole (Exelderm, Sulcosyn) is a topical imidazole antifungal, 1% cream or solution, FDA-approved 1985, for tinea corporis, cruris, pedis, and versicolor, similar in efficacy to clotrimazole and miconazole.

Sulcotrione

Sulcotrione is a selective triketone herbicide marketed as Mikado, the first HPPD inhibitor for corn, commercialized in 1993 for postemergence control of broadleaf weeds in maize.

Suleika Jaouad

Suleika Jaouad, American Emmy-winning journalist and author of Between Two Kingdoms and The Book of Alchemy; wrote the NYT column Life, Interrupted during leukemia treatment diagnosed at 22, with 2022 recurrence, Isolation Journals newsletter, and the Oscar-nominated documentary American Symphony with husband Jon Batiste.

Suleiman al-Bustani

Suleiman al-Bustani (سليمان البستاني) was a Lebanese Maronite scholar, poet, and Ottoman statesman, best known for his Arabic verse translation of Homer's Iliad and for serving as an Ottoman deputy, senator, and minister.

Suleiman al-Halabi

Suleiman al-Halabi (سليمان الحلبي), 1777 to 1800, was a Syrian student from Aleppo studying at al-Azhar in Cairo who assassinated French general Jean-Baptiste Kleber there in 1800.

Suleiman Cassamo

Suleiman Cassamo, born 1962, is a Mozambican writer whose story collection O Regresso do Morto was named by UNESCO a representative work of universal literary heritage in 1994.

Suleiman I of Persia

Suleiman I of Persia, born Sam Mirza, was the eighth Safavid shah of Iran, reigning 1666 to 1694; he was crowned twice, first as Safi II in 1666.

Suleiman ibn Qutalmish

Suleiman ibn Qutalmish (Suleiman Shah I, d. 479 AH/1086), Seljuk prince of the Qutalmish branch, founder and first sultan of the Sultanate of Rum, based at Nicaea from about 1077, conqueror of Antioch in 477 AH, killed fighting Tutush of Damascus.

Suleiman ibn Zubayr

Suleiman ibn Zubayr (سليمان بن الزبير) was a Sudanese military leader, son of Zubayr Pasha, who revolted against Egypt in Bahr al-Ghazal and was executed in 1879.

Suleiman II of Rum

Suleiman II of Rum, also called Rukn al-Din Suleimanshah, was sultan of the Seljuk sultanate of Rum in Anatolia from 1196 to 1204, after deposing his brother Kaykhusraw I.

Suleiman II of the Ottoman Empire

Suleiman II (Süleyman II, 1642–1691), 20th Ottoman sultan (1687–1691), brother of Mehmed IV, enthroned after the Janissary deposition of 1687 following forty years in the Kafes; reigned through Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, recovered Belgrade in 1690, died of dropsy, succeeded by Ahmed II.

Suleiman Nyambui

Suleiman Nyambui (Suleiman Mujaya Nyambui), Tanzanian distance runner born 1953; 1980 Moscow Olympic 5000m silver medalist behind Miruts Yifter, and 15-time NCAA champion at UTEP with bests of 13:12.29 (5000m) and 2:09:52 (marathon).

Suleiman Solongdung

Suleiman Solongdung (سليمان سولونج), also written Sulayman Solong, was the first historical ruler of the Keira dynasty of Darfur, reigning from about 1650 to 1680.

Suleiman the Magnificent

Suleiman the Magnificent (Süleyman, Kanuni; 1494–1566), tenth and longest-reigning Ottoman sultan (1520–1566): conquered Hungary, took Baghdad, dominated the Mediterranean under Barbarossa, codified Ottoman law, married Hürrem Sultan, and built the Süleymaniye with Sinan.

Suleiman's helmet

Suleiman's helmet was a gold, jeweled ceremonial helmet-crown made in Venice in the early 1530s for Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, with four crowns symbolizing universal sovereignty.

Suleman Lalani

Suleman Lalani is an American politician and physician serving as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 76, first elected in 2022.

Suleman octuplets

Suleman octuplets, also called the Octomom babies, are the first surviving octuplets, born 2009 in Bellflower, California to Nadya Suleman after Dr. Michael Kamrava transferred 12 embryos, leading to his license revocation.

Suleman Sani

Suleman Sani, Nigerian winger born 2006; left winger for Al Qadsiah after Gombe United, Akwa United, AS Trenčín, and RB Leipzig; Nigeria U20 at the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.