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Sharaf al-Din al-Dimyati
Sharaf al-Din al-Dimyati (شرف الدين الدمياطي) was an Egyptian Sunni Shafi'i hadith scholar and genealogist, born in 1217, who taught in Cairo and died there in 1306.
Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi
Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi (شرف الدين المظفر الطوسي) was a mathematician and astronomer of the eastern Islamic world, c. 1135 to 1213, best known for his 1209 treatise on cubic equations.
Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi
Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi (شرفالدین علی یزدی) was a Persian historian, poet, and scholar of the Timurid empire, best known for the Zafarnama, a biography of Timur.
Sharaf Din Astarabadi Husayni
Sharaf Din Astarabadi Husayni, also known as Sharaf al-Din Astarabadi Husayni, was a tenth-century AH Shia exegete, hadith scholar, and jurist based in Najaf who died in 1558.
Sharaf Khan Bidlisi
Sharaf Khan Bidlisi (شرف خان البدليسي) was a Kurdish prince who ruled Bitlis under Ottoman suzerainty and wrote the Sharafnama, a Persian history of the Kurds.
Sharaf Regio
Sharaf Regio is an IAU-approved 360 km regio on Pluto's southern hemisphere (center 11.38°S, 238.67°E), adopted September 11, 2024 and named for Soviet Tatar astronomer Shafika Sharaf, who derived an analytical theory of Pluto's motion.
Sharafadeen Alli
Sharafadeen Abiodun Alli (BSA), born 1963, Nigerian lawyer and APC senator for Oyo South since 2023, former Ibadan North chairman and Oyo SSG and Chief of Staff under Ladoja, now APC's 2027 Oyo governorship candidate.
Sharafuddin Abu Tawwama
Sharafuddin Abu Tawwama (শরফুদ্দীন আবু তাওয়ামা) was a Sufi saint and Islamic scholar born in Bukhara who settled at Sonargaon in Bengal, where his madrasa made the town a center of Islamic learning.
Sharafuddin of Selangor
Sharafuddin of Selangor, also known as Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, is the ninth Sultan of Selangor, Malaysia, who ascended the throne in November 2001 on the death of his father, Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah.
Sharafuddin Yahya Maneri
Sharafuddin Yahya Maneri (شرف الدین یحیی منیری) was a Sufi saint and Persian author of the Firdausiyya order in Bihar, known for his Maktubat letters.
Sharahbi'il Yakkuf
Sharahbi'il Yakkuf was a king of the Himyarite kingdom in southern Arabia who reigned in the second half of the fifth century AD, ruling the united kingdom of Saba' and Himyar from Ẓafār.
Sharai-i Firuz Shahi
Sharai-i Firuz Shahi (شرائع فیروز شاہی) is the code of regulations issued by Sultan Firuz Shah Tughluq of Delhi, who ruled from 1351 to 1388, abolishing uncanonical taxes.
Sharakan
Sharakan (Շարական) is the principal genre of Armenian sacred music, medieval hymns sung during Armenian Apostolic Church services, with about 1,000 composed by the 15th century.
Sharaku
Tōshūsai Sharaku (東洲斎写楽) was a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print designer, active about ten months in 1794 and 1795, known for striking kabuki actor portraits and an unknown identity.
Sharan (ಶರಣ್) (actor)
Sharan (ಶರಣ್), Kannada actor, producer, and playback singer born 1974 in Bangalore; comedy actor from Prem Prema Prema (1996) who became a lead with his 100th film Rambo (2012), followed by Victory and Adhyaksha.
Sharan Pasricha
Sharan Pasricha is an Indian-born hospitality entrepreneur who founded Ennismore in 2011, globalized The Hoxton hotel brand, reinvented Gleneagles in Scotland, and merged Ennismore into a majority Accor-owned joint venture in 2021.
Sharan Prakash Patil
Sharan Prakash Rudrappa Patil is an Indian National Congress politician and dermatologist who serves as Karnataka's Minister for Medical Education and Skill Development, representing Sedam in the state assembly.
Sharan Q
Sharan Q (シャ乱Q) is a Japanese rock band formed in Osaka in December 1988 by five university students; its 1997 audition led Tsunku to produce Morning Musume and Hello! Project.
Sharang
The Sharang is a 155 mm/45-caliber towed artillery gun of the Indian Army, created by upgrading the army's Soviet-origin 130 mm M-46 field guns to 155 mm caliber.
Sharanya Pradeep
Sharanya Pradeep (శరణ్య ప్రదీప్), also spelled Saranya Pradeep, is a Telugu film actress and television anchor born 1992 in Nizamabad, Telangana. Debut Fidaa (2017); known for Jaanu, SWAG, and her praised Padma role in Ambajipeta Marriage Band (2024).
Sharanya Turadi Sundarraj
Sharanya Turadi Sundarraj (born 1987) is an Indian actress in Tamil television who played Saranya Vikram in Nenjam Marappathillai from 2017 to 2019, after working as a Tamil newsreader.
Sharapanjara (ಶರಪಂಜರ)
Sharapanjara (ಶರಪಂಜರ, Cage of Arrows) is a 1971 Kannada drama directed by Puttanna Kanagal, based on Triveni's novel, starring Kalpana as Kaveri and Gangadhar as Satish; it won the 1972 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada and depicts postpartum psychosis and social stigma.
Sharara Field
Sharara Field, also written El Sharara (Arabic شرارة), is Libya's largest onshore oil field in the Murzuq Basin, producing up to 300,000 barrels per day.
Shararat (TV series)
Shararat – Thoda Jaadu, Thodi Nazaakat (शरारत - थोड़ा जादू, थोड़ी नज़ाकत) is an Indian Hindi fantasy sitcom on Star Plus, 2003–2006, loosely based on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, about three generations of witches in the Malhotra family; 192 episodes, starring Shruti Seth and Farida Jalal.
Sharat Saxena
Sharat Saxena (शरत सक्सेना), born 1950 in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, is an Indian character actor with 250-plus Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films; known for Ghulam, Mr India and Phir Hera Pheri.
Sharath Reddy
Sharath Reddy is an American investor who joined HealthQuest Capital as a Partner in 2022, focusing on its Tactical Opportunities Fund after fifteen years across private, public, and credit markets.
Sharavathy hydroelectric plant
The Sharavathy hydroelectric plant is a 1,035 MW generating station on the Sharavathi River in Karnataka, India, built around the Linganamakki dam completed in 1964 and one of India's oldest hydroelectric projects.
Sharbat Gula (شربت ګله)
Sharbat Gula (شربت ګله), also Sharbat Bibi, is the Afghan refugee known as the "Afghan Girl" from Steve McCurry's 1984 Nasir Bagh camp portrait on the June 1985 National Geographic cover; identified in 2002, deported from Pakistan in 2016, given a Kabul house in 2017, evacuated to Italy in 2021.
Sharbush
Sharbush (الشربوش, also harbush): medieval Islamic high-crowned fur-trimmed military cap worn instead of a turban, an amirs' investiture insignia under the Ayyubids and Mamluks; abolished under the Burji Mamluks, predecessor of the tarbush name.
SHARC
SHARC (Surface Hopping including ARbitrary Couplings) is a method and software suite for simulating excited-state nonadiabatic molecular dynamics, developed at the University of Vienna in 2011.