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Sahib Ibn Abbad

Sahib Ibn Abbad (صاحب بن عباد) was a Buyid vizier and leading man of letters of tenth-century Iran, serving the amirs Mu'ayyid al-Dawla and Fakhr al-Dawla from 976 to 995.

Sahib-divan

The sahib-divan (صاحب دیوان) was the chief financial and administrative office of the Mongol Ilkhanate in Iran; its best-known holder, Shams al-Din Juvayni, was executed in 1284.

Sahibdin

Sahibdin (also written Sahib Din) was an Indian painter of the Mewar school of Rajasthani miniature painting, active from 1628 to 1655 at Udaipur.

Sahibzada Jujhar Singh

Sahibzada Jujhar Singh (ਸਾਹਿਬਜ਼ਾਦਾ ਜੁਝਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ) was the second son of Guru Gobind Singh, born in 1691 and killed at the Battle of Chamkaur in 1705.

Sahih al-Bukhari (صحيح البخاري)

Sahih al-Bukhari (صحيح البخاري), also known as Jami al-Bukhari, is a hadith collection compiled by Muhammad al-Bukhari, regarded in Sunni Islam as the most authentic book after the Quran.

Sahih Muslim (صحيح مسلم)

Sahih Muslim (صحيح مسلم) is one of the two most authoritative hadith collections in Sunni Islam, compiled by Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj of Nishapur, who died in 875.

Sahika Inal

Sahika Inal is a materials scientist at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia who leads the Organic Bioelectronics Lab, working on organic electrochemical transistor biosensors.

Sahil Babayev

Sahil Babayev is an Azerbaijani politician who serves as Minister of Finance of Azerbaijan, appointed by President Ilham Aliyev after previously serving as Minister of Labor and Social Protection.

Sahil Mehta (actor, born 1997)

Sahil Mehta (born 1997, New Delhi) is an Indian actor known for Tabbar, Good Luck Jerry, Raksha Bandhan, Farrey, The Waking of a Nation, Loot Kaand and Son of Sardaar 2; distinct from the 1988-born TV actor of Suhani Si Ek Ladki.

Şahin Giray

Şahin Giray (شاهین گیرای), c. 1585–1641, was a Giray prince of the Crimean Khanate who with his brother Khan Mehmed Giray III rebelled against Ottoman control.

Şahinbey İlçesi

Şahinbey, a central district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey, named for Kuvâ-yı Milliye commander Şahin Bey (Mehmet Sait). Covers 960 km², 188 neighborhoods, population 946,812 (2024), established by law 3398, effective 19 September 1988.

Sahir Ludhianvi

Sahir Ludhianvi (साहिर लुधियानवी), born Abdul Hayee (1921–1980), was an Indian Urdu poet and Hindi film lyricist of the Progressive Writers' Association, known for Pyaasa, Naya Daur, and Kabhie Kabhie, two Filmfare Awards, and the Padma Shri.

Sahith Theegala

Sahith Theegala (born 1997, Orange, California) is an American PGA Tour golfer, Pepperdine's first national player of the year, winner of the 2023 Fortinet Championship, and the second Indian-heritage PGA Tour winner.

Sahitya

Sahitya (साहित्य) is the Sanskrit term for literature, and in its technical sense the Sanskrit tradition of literary theory, also called kavyashastra, the science of poetry.

Sahitya Akademi

Sahitya Akademi (साहित्य अकादमी) is India's national academy of letters, set up by the government in 1954 and best known for its annual awards in 24 recognized languages.

Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award (साहित्य अकादमी पुरस्कार): annual Indian literary prize by the Sahitya Akademi for the best book in each of 24 languages; instituted 1954, first given 1955, Rs 1 lakh plus copper plaque and shawl.

Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati

The Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati is an annual literary award given by India's National Academy of Letters, first conferred in 1955 to Mahadev Desai.

Sahitya Akademi Award for Marathi

The Sahitya Akademi Award for Marathi is an annual literary prize given by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, to an outstanding Marathi book, awarded since 1955.

Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil

The Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil is an annual literary prize given by India's National Academy of Letters to the most outstanding Tamil book of the period.

Sahitya Akademi Bhasha Samman

The Sahitya Akademi Bhasha Samman (भाषा सम्मान, "language honour") is an annual award instituted in 1996 by the Sahitya Akademi for contributions to Indian languages it does not formally recognize.

Sahitya Akademi Fellowship

The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is the highest honor the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, confers on a writer, limited to 21 living Fellows.

Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize

The Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize (साहित्य अकादेमी अनुवाद पुरस्कार) is an annual prize given since 1989 by India's National Academy of Letters to outstanding translations in 24 Indian languages.

Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar

The Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar (युवा पुरस्कार, Youth Award) is an annual literary prize given by India's Sahitya Akademi to young writers aged 35 or below, established in 2011.

Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar

The Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar, also rendered Sahitya Gaurav Award, is a lifetime achievement literary award for Gujarati writers, given annually by the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi since 1983.

Sahitya Lahari

Sahitya Lahari is a short Braj Bhasha poem-cycle of 118 padas attributed to Surdas, traditionally the third of his major works after the Sursagar and Sursaravali.

Sahityadarpana

Sahityadarpana (साहित्यदर्पण, "The Mirror of Literature") is a 14th-century Sanskrit treatise on poetics and dramaturgy by Viśvanātha Kavirāja of Odisha, first to combine poetics and dramaturgy and still the standard introductory text in Indian universities.

Sahiwal District

Sahiwal District, formerly Montgomery District, is a district of central Punjab, Pakistan, between the Ravi and Sutlej rivers; headquarters at Sahiwal city, renamed from Montgomery in 1966, with two tehsils, Harappa, and 2.88 million people (2023).

Sahiwal power station

The Sahiwal power station, also called the Sahiwal Coal Power Project, is a 1,320 MW coal-fired plant at Qadirabad in Sahiwal District, Punjab, Pakistan, opened in 2017.

Şahkulu

Şahkulu (died 1556) was an Ottoman court painter who headed the imperial painting atelier of Topkapı Palace under Süleyman the Magnificent and founded the saz style.

Sahl al-Tustari

Sahl al-Tustari (سهل التستري) was a Persian Sufi ascetic and Quranic exegete of the early Abbasid period, born in Tustar around 818 and died in Basra in 896.