All articles starting with S

Salientia

Salientia is the amphibian clade that includes all frogs and toads (Anura) together with their closest fossil relatives, known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar about 250 million years ago.

Salif Keita (born 1949, Djoliba, Mali) is a Malian singer-songwriter, the Golden Voice of Africa, ex-Rail Band and Les Ambassadeurs, Soro (1987), with albinism advocacy; not to be confused with other Keitas.

Sālig Rām Sāheb

Sālig Rām Sāheb, honored as Huzur Maharaj, was an Indian postal administrator who became the second guru of the Radhasoami movement after founder Shiv Dayal Singh died in 1878.

Salih b. Nasrullah

Salih b. Nasrullah (صالح بن نصر الله), known as Ibn Sellum, was an Ottoman physician from Aleppo who served as chief physician to Sultan Mehmed IV.

Salih Çelebi

Salih Çelebi (صالح چلبی), known as Celalzade after his father, was an Ottoman scholar, poet, historian, and judge under Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent who died in 1565.

Salih ibn Ahmad al-Tamimi

Salih ibn Ahmad al-Tamimi (صالح بن أحمد التميمي), called al-Simsar, was a fourth-century AH Sunni hadith scholar of Hamadhan, graded thiqa (trustworthy) and a prolific author.

Salih ibn Mirdas

Salih ibn Mirdas (صالح بن مرداس) was a Bedouin emir who founded the Mirdasid dynasty, taking Aleppo in 1024 and ruling much of Syria until his death in battle in 1029.

Salih ibn Mirdas's capture of Aleppo

Salih ibn Mirdas's capture of Aleppo was the seizure of Aleppo and its citadel from the Fatimids in 1024–1025 by the Bedouin chief Salih ibn Mirdas.

Sep 24, 2026

Salih ibn Tarif

Salih ibn Tarif (صالح بن طريف) was a Berber chief of the Barghawata confederation on Morocco's Atlantic coast who in the mid-eighth century declared himself prophet and Mahdi.

Sep 21, 2026

Salih J. Wakil

Salih J. Wakil (1927–2019) was an Iraqi-born American biochemist at Baylor College of Medicine who discovered acetyl-CoA carboxylase and fatty acid synthase, key enzymes of fatty acid synthesis.

Sep 24, 2026

Salih Zeki

Salih Zeki (صالح زكى) was an Ottoman mathematician, physicist, and historian of science who wrote Asar-i Bakiye, a foundational work on Islamic mathematics and astronomy.

Sâlihefendizâde Mehmed Emin Efendi

Sâlihefendizâde Mehmed Emin Efendi, nicknamed Camgöz for wearing glasses, was an Ottoman Hanafi scholar who served as shaykh al-islam from 1775 until his dismissal in 1776.

Salihids

The Salihids (سليح) were an Arab tribal group serving Byzantium as federates in fifth-century Syria, the empire's principal Arab allies before the Ghassanids displaced them.

Salihiyya

The Salihiyya (الصالحية) were the military entourage of the Ayyubid sultan al-Salih Ayyub of Egypt, who seized power in 1250 and installed Aybak as the first Mamluk sultan.

Sâlihzâde Esad Efendi

Sâlihzâde Esad Efendi (Mehmed Sâlihzâde Ahmed Esad, 1740–1814) was an Ottoman scholar who served twice as Shaykh al-Islam and issued the fatwa authorizing Selim III's Nizâm-ı Cedîd reform army.

Salikanatha

Salikanatha (शालिकनाथ), also written Shalikanatha, was an Indian philosopher of the Prabhakara subschool of Mimamsa, active around 900 CE, whose Prakaranapancika and Rjuvimala became the standard statement of Prabhakara doctrine.

Salil Ankola

Salil Ankola, Indian fast bowler (one Test, 20 ODIs, 1989-97) who debuted with Tendulkar at Karachi, retired at 28 after a shin bone tumour, then became a TV actor, Mumbai and BCCI selector, and mental-health advocate.

Salil Chowdhury (সলিল চৌধুরী)

Salil Chowdhury (সলিল চৌধুরী, Salilda, 1925–1995) was an Indian music director, lyricist and IPTA mass-song writer who scored films in 13 languages, including Do Bigha Zameen, Madhumati and Chemmeen.

Salil Deshpande

Salil Deshpande is an American venture capitalist who founded Uncorrelated Ventures in 2019 after seven years at Bain Capital Ventures, investing in MuleSoft, Buddy Media, and Crusoe Energy.

Salil Vadhan

Salil Vadhan is a computer scientist and the Vicky Joseph Professor at Harvard, known for the zig-zag graph product in pseudorandomness and for leading differential privacy research, including OpenDP.

Salim (film)

Salim is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by N. V. Nirmal Kumar, starring Vijay Antony as Dr. Mohammed Salim, a sequel to Naan (2012).

Salim Abdool Karim

Salim Abdool Karim is a South African infectious diseases epidemiologist who led the CAPRISA 004 trial proving antiretrovirals prevent HIV, and chaired South Africa's COVID-19 advisory committee.

Salim al-Bishri

Salim al-Bishri (سليم البشري; 1832–1917) was an Egyptian Maliki jurist who served twice as Grand Imam of al-Azhar and led early reforms of its teaching and administration.

Salim al-Bustani

Salim al-Bustani (سليم البستاني, 1848–1884) was a Lebanese journalist, editor, and novelist of the Nahda who edited the Beirut periodical Al-Jinan and pioneered the historical and social novel in Arabic.

Sep 24, 2026

Salim al-Jazairi

Salim al-Jazairi (سليم الجزائري) was an Arab staff officer in the Ottoman army, born in Damascus in 1879, who helped found secret Arab societies and was hanged in 1916.

Salim Ali

Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali (1896–1987), the "Birdman of India", ornithologist who surveyed princely-state birds, co-wrote the ten-volume Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan with Ripley, led BNHS, and inspired SACON.

Salim Chishti

Salim Chishti (شیخ سلیم چشتی) was a Chishti Sufi saint at Sikri near Agra whose blessing was credited with the birth of Akbar's heir Jahangir.

Salim Daw

Salim Daw (سليم ضو), born 1950 in Bi'ina, Galilee, is a Palestinian actor known for Mohamed Al-Fayed in The Crown, Issa in Gaza Mon Amour, Ahmed Qurei in Oslo, and Avanti Popolo.

Salim Group

The Salim Group is an Indonesian family-controlled conglomerate founded by Liem Sioe Liong, once Southeast Asia's largest, now led by his son Anthoni Salim and known for Indofood.