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UB40
UB40, British reggae-pop band formed in Birmingham in 1978, named after the UK unemployment benefit form. Known for Signing Off, Labour of Love, and Red Red Wine; over 100 million records sold; split into two rival versions after Ali Campbell's 2008 exit.
UBA1
UBA1 (UBE1, A1S9) is the main human E1 ubiquitin-activating enzyme, X-linked at Xp11.23, essential for viability, and the gene whose somatic mutation in blood cells causes VEXAS syndrome.
UBA2
UBA2 (SAE2) is the catalytic subunit of the UBA2/SAE1 heterodimer, the sole SUMO-specific E1 activating enzyme that initiates SUMOylation via ATP-dependent SUMO adenylation and Cys173 thioester transfer to Ubc9; its loss causes SHFM/ACCES malformations and its overexpression drives cancers.
Ubadah ibn al-Samit
Ubadah ibn al-Samit (عبادة بن الصامت) was a companion of Muhammad of the Khazraj tribe of Medina, a veteran of Badr, and a hadith narrator who died in 34 AH.
Ubaid period
Ubaid period (c. 5900–4000 BC; also 5500–4000 BC), Mesopotamian Late Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic culture named for Tell al-'Ubaid near Ur, defined by black-on-buff painted pottery, irrigation farming, tripartite temples, and phases Ubaid 0–4.
Ubaid Shah
Ubaid Shah, Pakistani right-arm fast-medium bowler born 2006 in Lower Dir, brother of Naseem Shah; starred at the 2024 U19 World Cup (18 wickets), played PSL for Islamabad United, Multan Sultans and Lahore Qalandars, and debuted in Tests for Pakistan in August 2026.
Uballissu-Marduk
Uballissu-Marduk was a Babylonian accountant and administrator who served the Kassite king Kurigalzu in the fourteenth century BC, known from seal inscriptions and later land grants.
Ubangi-Shari
Ubangi-Shari (French Oubangui-Chari), French colony in central Africa from 1894, separated from French Congo in 1903, part of French Equatorial Africa; became the Central African Republic in 1958 and independent 13 August 1960.
Ubara-Tutu
Ubara-Tutu, also written Ubartutu, is the legendary last antediluvian king of Shuruppak in the Sumerian King List, said to have ruled 18,600 years and fathered the flood hero Ziusudra.
Ubartum
Ubartum was a female physician of the Ur III period in southern Mesopotamia, the best-known woman practicing medicine at the end of the third millennium BC.
Ubashi Khan
Ubashi Khan (also rendered Wobaxi) was the last ruler of the Kalmyk Khanate, governing 1761 to 1771, when he led most Kalmyks from Russia back to Dzungaria.
Ubastet Fluctus
Ubastet Fluctus is a 550-km-wide lava flow feature (fluctus) on Venus at 48°S, 27°E in the Lada region, named for an Egyptian cat goddess and adopted by the IAU in 1997.
Ubasute (姥捨て)
Ubasute (姥捨て) is the Japanese legend and folktale motif of abandoning the elderly in the mountains, best known from Obasuteyama in Nagano and the Yamato Monogatari; folklore treats it as narrative rather than a real custom, famous through the 1956 novel Narayama Bushiko and its 1958 and 1983 films.
uBaxoxele
uBaxoxele is a Zulu-language school reader compiled by Natal magistrate and Zulu historian James Stuart, published in London in 1924 as one of the five James Stuart Books.
Ubayd Allah Ahrar
Ubayd Allah Ahrar (عبیدالله احرار), known as Khwaja Ahrar, was an influential Naqshbandi Sufi shaykh of Samarkand who advised the Timurid ruler Abu Sa'id and built a patronage network in 15th-century Central Asia.
Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi
Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi (المهدي بالله عبيد الله) was the first caliph of the Fatimid dynasty, reigning in Ifriqiya from 909 to 934 and founding the coastal capital Mahdiya.
Ubayd Allah al-Qawariri
Ubayd Allah al-Qawariri (عبيد الله القواريري) was a hadith hafiz born in Basra around 768 CE who settled in Baghdad; al-Bukhari and Muslim both narrated from him.
Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Utba
Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Utba (عبيد الله بن عبد الله بن عتبة) was a blind Medinan jurist and mufti, one of the Seven Jurists, who died around 716 CE.
Ubayd Allah ibn Iyad al-Sadusi
Ubayd Allah ibn Iyad al-Sadusi (عبيد الله بن إياد السدوسي) was a Kufan hadith transmitter who died in 169 AH and was graded thiqa by Ibn Ma'in and al-Nasa'i.
Ubayd Allah ibn Mu'adh al-Anbari
Ubayd Allah ibn Mu'adh al-Anbari, Abu 'Amr al-Basri, was a Basran hadith transmitter who died in 852, known for memorizing ten thousand problematic hadith while critics disputed his reliability.
Ubayd Allah ibn Musa al-'Absi
Ubayd Allah ibn Musa al-'Absi (عبيد الله بن موسى العبسي) was a Kufan hadith scholar who died in 213 AH and compiled the first Kufan Musnad.
Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad
Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad (عبيد الله بن زياد) was a governor of the Umayyad Caliphate under Yazid I who ordered the operation that killed al-Husayn at Karbala in 680.
Ubayd ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Baghdadi al-Bazzar
Ubayd ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Baghdadi al-Bazzar (عبيد بن عبد الواحد البزار) was a third-century AH hadith narrator of Baghdad, graded truthful, who died in 898.
Ubayd ibn Umayr al-Laythi
Ubayd ibn Umayr al-Laythi was a Meccan Successor, storyteller-preacher, and exegete who judged for Ibn al-Zubayr, taught Ata ibn Abi Rabah, and died around 68 AH.
Ubayd Zakani
Ubayd Zakani (عبید زاکانی) was a Persian poet and satirist of the Mongol period who died around 1370, best known for the satires Mush u gurba and Akhlaq al-ashraf.
Ubayd Zakani's satirical prose
Ubayd Zakani's satirical prose is the humorous 14th-century Persian and Arabic prose of Ubayd Zakani of Qazvin, chiefly the Akhlaq al-ashraf and the Resala-ye delgosa.
Ubayda ibn Humayd al-Kufi
Ubayda ibn Humayd al-Kufi (عبيدة بن حميد الكوفي) was a second-century Kufan hadith transmitter, grammarian, and Quran reader who died in Baghdad in 190 AH (806 CE).
Ubaydallah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan
Ubaydallah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan (عبيد الله بن يحيى بن خاقان) was an Abbasid vizier who served about fourteen years under the caliphs al-Mutawakkil and al-Mu'tamid.
Ubaydullah Khan
Ubaydullah Khan (عبیدالله خان) was supreme khan of the Shaybanid dynasty of Transoxania from 1533 to 1539, ruling Bukhara and waging repeated wars against Safavid Iran over Khurasan.
Ubayy ibn Ka'b
Ubayy ibn Ka'b (أُبَيّ بن كعب) was a Companion of Muhammad from Medina, a scribe of revelation honored as sayyid al-qurra, master of the readers.