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Tahir al-Jazairi
Tahir al-Jazairi (طاهر الجزائري), 1852 to 1920, was a Damascene scholar and educational reformer who founded the Zahiriyya Library and helped establish public libraries in Jerusalem.
Tahir al-Tabari
Tahir al-Tabari (أبو الطيب الطبري) was a leading Shafi'i jurist who served as judge of Baghdad's Karkh quarter and died in 1058 at age 102.
Tahir and Zuhra
Tahir and Zuhra (Tahir və Zöhrə) is a tragic love dastan of the Turkic peoples, telling of betrothed lovers separated by the girl's father, the padishah.
Tahir Ghani
Tahir Ghani, known in the industry as "Mr. Transistor," is a semiconductor engineer and Senior Intel Fellow at Intel who led the strained-silicon, high-k metal gate, and FinFET transistor transitions.
Tahir ibn Muhammad
Tahir ibn Muhammad (طاهر بن محمد) was a Saffarid amir of Zarang in Sistan who succeeded his grandfather Amr ibn al-Layth and was deposed around 908.
Tahir ibn Muhammad al-Shuhami
Tahir ibn Muhammad al-Shuhami (الشحامي طاهر بن محمد) was a Sunni hadith scholar and jurist of Nishapur, Iran, who lived from 1008 to 1086 and dictated works to the vizier Nizam al-Mulk.
Tahir ibn Sahl al-Isfara'ini
Tahir ibn Sahl al-Isfara'ini was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Damascus, known as al-Sa'igh the goldsmith; born around 1057, he died in 531 AH (1136 or 1137).
Tahir ile Zühre
Tahir ile Zühre (Tâhir ile Zühre) is a Turkish folk tale of tragic love between a vizier's son and a sultan's daughter, known since the 16th century.
Tahir Raj Bhasin (ताहिर राज भसीन)
Tahir Raj Bhasin (ताहिर राज भसीन), born 1987 in Delhi, is a Hindi film and streaming actor; villain Walt in Mardaani (2014), Derek in Chhichhore, Sunil Gavaskar in 83, lead in Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein and Special Ops 2's Collector.
Tahira Syed
Tahira Syed, born 1958 in Lahore, is a Pakistani ghazal and folk singer, the youngest daughter of singer Malika Pukhraj, awarded the Pride of Performance in 2013.
Tahirah Sharif
Tahirah Sharif (born July 27) is a British actress known for Rebecca Jessel in The Haunting of Bly Manor, BAFTA-nominated PC Lizzie Adama in The Tower, and Cindy Carter in A Town Called Malice.
Tahirid dynasty
The Tahirid dynasty (طاهریان, Al-e Tahir) was a family of governors who ruled Khurasan for the Abbasid caliphate from 821 to 873, founded by Tahir ibn Husayn.
Tahirid dynasty (Yemen)
The Tahirid dynasty (بنو طاهر, Banu Tahir) was a Muslim dynasty that ruled most of Lower Yemen from 1454 until the Mamluk conquest of 1517.
Tahirid establishment in Khurasan
The Tahirid establishment in Khurasan (قيام الدولة الطاهرية) was the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun's appointment of Tahir ibn Husayn as governor of Khurasan in 821, making the governorship hereditary in his family.
Tahirih
Tahirih (طاهره), also known as Qurrat al-'Ayn, was a Persian poet, theologian, and leading disciple of the Bab, executed in Tehran in 1852 after unveiling at Badasht in 1848.
Tahith Chong
Tahith Chong (Tahith Jose Girigorio Djorkaef Chong), born 1999 in Willemstad, Curaçao, is a Curaçaoan attacking midfielder and winger for Sheffield United; ex-Manchester United, Club Brugge, Birmingham, Luton; Netherlands youth, Curaçao at the 2026 World Cup.
Tahiti
Tahiti, largest island of French Polynesia in the Society Islands, South Pacific; capital Papeete, gateway airport Faa'a. Ceded to France by Pomare V in 1880; nuclear test site 1966–1996; major tourism hub.
Tahitian oral literature
Tahitian oral literature, called parau tumu fenua in Tahitian, is the body of songs, chants, legends, and genealogies transmitted by word of mouth in the Society Islands.
Tahitian written literature
Tahitian written literature is writing in Tahitian and French, begun after missionaries introduced the Latin alphabet; Pōmare II wrote a first text in 1807, and a press printed at Mo'orea in 1817.
Tahj Mowry
Tahj Dayton Mowry, born 1986, Honolulu, is an American actor and singer, brother of twins Tia and Tamera Mowry; known for Smart Guy's T.J. Henderson, Kim Possible's Wade, and Baby Daddy's Tucker Dobbs.
Tahkemoni
The Tahkemoni (ספר תחכמוני, Sefer Taḥkemoni) is a collection of fifty Hebrew maqamas by the Spanish-Jewish poet Judah al-Harizi, written in the early thirteenth century.
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Tahlequah, Oklahoma: county seat of Cherokee County and capital of the Cherokee Nation, founded 1839 after the Trail of Tears, incorporated 1843, population 16,209 (2020), home of Northeastern State University.
Tahltan oral literature
Tahltan oral literature is the stories, songs, and spoken teachings of the Tahltan people of northwestern British Columbia, transmitted in the Tāłtān language through dialogue, story, song, and dance.
Tahmasp I
Tahmasp I (شاه طهماسب یکم) was the second Safavid shah of Iran, eldest son of Ismail I, whose 52-year reign from 1524 was the dynasty's longest.
Tahmasp I's Edict of Repentance
Tahmasp I's Edict of Repentance (فرمان توبه شاه طهماسب) was a decree by Shah Tahmasp I of Safavid Iran, issued after his repentance from wine, closing wine houses and brothels.
Tahmina Planitia
Tahmina Planitia, a 3,000-km-diameter lowland plain on Venus at 23S 80E, IAU-named in 1997 for the Farsi epic heroine wife of Rustam; lava-flooded basin south of Ovda Regio near Artemis Chasma.
Tahmis
Tahmis is a strophic verse form of classical Arabic, Persian, and Turkish poetry that turns each couplet of a ghazal or qasida into a five-line stanza.
Tahmoh Penikett
Tahmoh Penikett (born 1975, Whitehorse, Yukon) is a Canadian actor known as Karl "Helo" Agathon on Battlestar Galactica and FBI agent Paul Ballard on Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, with later roles in Continuum, Supernatural, and Altered Carbon.
Tahoe
Tahoe, also called Lazy Pineapple or Wichita Hold'em, is a Texas Hold'em poker variant with three hole cards kept to the showdown, where at most two hole cards may be used; also played hi-lo and in California cardrooms.
Tahpenes
Tahpenes, also known as Tachpenes, was an Egyptian royal woman of the Twenty-first Dynasty, named in 1 Kings 11 as the wife of an unnamed Pharaoh around 1000 BC.