All articles starting with Y

Yusuf Demir

Yusuf Demir (born 2003, Vienna) is an Austrian left-footed winger at SK Rapid Wien; formerly FC Barcelona loanee 2021-22, Galatasaray 2022-26, Basel loan, Austria international.

Yusuf Dey (يوسف داي) was Dey of Tunis, effective head of government of the Ottoman Regency of Tunis from 1610 to 1637, who appointed the first Muradid bey and built the first Ottoman-style mosque in Tunis.

Yusuf Dikeç

Yusuf Dikeç (born 1973), Turkish pistol shooter, five-time Olympian, won silver in 10m air pistol mixed team with Şevval İlayda Tarhan at Paris 2024, Türkiye's first Olympic shooting medal, famous for shooting with hand in pocket and no special gear.

Yusuf Estes

Yusuf Estes (Joseph Edward Estes, born 1944) is an American convert to Islam, former music-business owner and self-described US Bureau of Prisons Muslim chaplain, founder of Guide US TV, and DIHQA Islamic Personality of the Year 2012.

Sep 19, 2026

Yusuf Hamied

Yusuf K. Hamied, born 1936 in Vilnius, is an Indian pharmaceutical businessman who led Cipla and offered AIDS drugs at $350 per patient per year in 2001.

Sep 20, 2026

Yusuf Hannun

Yusuf Hannun, born in Saudi Arabia of Palestinian parents, is a biochemist who directs the Stony Brook Cancer Center and established ceramide as a signaling molecule.

Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri

Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri (يوسف بن عبد الرحمن الفهري) was the last governor of al-Andalus, ruling from 747 to 756 before the Umayyad emirate of Cordoba was founded.

Yusuf ibn Abi'l-Saj

Yusuf ibn Abi'l-Saj (يوسف بن أبي الساج), in full Abu'l-Qasem Yusuf, was a Sajid ruler of Azerbaijan and Armenia, restored to both provinces in 922 after imprisonment in Baghdad.

Sep 24, 2026

Yusuf ibn al-Hasan

Yusuf ibn al-Hasan (يوسف بن الحسن), known to the Portuguese as Dom Jeronimo Chingulia, was sultan of Mombasa who led the 1631 revolt against Portuguese rule.

Oct 10, 2026

Yusuf ibn al-Hasan al-Tafakkari

Yusuf ibn al-Hasan al-Tafakkari was a fifth-century AH Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar in Baghdad, a senior student of Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi who died there in 473 AH.

Yusuf ibn Isa al-Qina'i

Yusuf ibn Isa al-Qina'i (يوسف بن عيسى القناعي) was a Kuwaiti scholar, judge, and historian who led Kuwait's first regular schools and sat in its first councils.

Oct 10, 2026

Yusuf ibn Sa'id al-Mawsili

Yusuf ibn Sa'id al-Mawsili, also known as Abu Ya'qub al-Masisi, was a hadith scholar of Misis and Antioch, graded trustworthy by al-Nasa'i, who died in 885 CE.

Yusuf ibn Tashfin

Yusuf ibn Tashfin (يوسف بن تاشفين) was the Almoravid emir, reigning 1061 to 1106, who united North Africa and al-Andalus and defeated Alfonso VI at Sagrajas in 1086.

Oct 10, 2026

Yusuf ibn Ya'qub al-Majishun

Yusuf ibn Ya'qub al-Majishun was a Medinan hadith transmitter of the early second century AH, graded trustworthy and cited in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.

Yusuf Idris

Yusuf Idris (يوسف إدريس, 1927–1991) was an Egyptian writer and physician whose stories of ordinary Egyptians made him a founder of the modern Arabic short story.

Yusuf IV of Granada

Yusuf IV of Granada (يوسف الرابع) was emir of Granada in 1432, placed on the throne by a Castilian campaign and executed when the Alhambra fell after under four months.

Yusuf Jamal

Yusuf Jamal is a three-star general in the Pakistan Army. He directs the Strategic Plans Division, the military department responsible for Pakistan's nuclear and missile programs.

Yusuf Karamanli

Yusuf Karamanli (يوسف قرمانلي) was pasha of Tripoli from 1795 to 1832, seizing the throne by coup and fighting the United States in the war of 1801–5.

Yusuf Khan

Yusuf Khan, also known as Maruthanayagam, was an Indian military commander who served the East India Company as Governor of Madura and Tinnevelly and was hanged in 1764.

Yusuf Khan Mostashar al-Dowleh

Yusuf Khan Mostashar al-Dowleh (Mirza Yusuf Khan Mustashar al-Dawla) was a Qajar diplomat and writer whose treatise Yek Kalameh, written in Paris by 1871, argued for codified law.

Yusuf Khass Hajib

Yusuf Khass Hajib (c. 1019–1085) was a Karakhanid poet, philosopher, and statesman from Balasagun, author of the Kutadgu Bilig, the oldest surviving monument of Islamic Turkic literature.

Yusuf Lule

Yusuf Lule (1912–1985) was a Ugandan professor and first Ugandan principal of Makerere University who served as president for 68 days in 1979, the shortest tenure in Uganda's history.

Yusuf Pathan

Yusuf Pathan (born 1984, Vadodara) is an Indian politician and former cricketer, brother of Irfan Pathan; T20 World Cup 2007 and World Cup 2011 winner, first player with three IPL titles, TMC MP for Baharampur since 2024.

Yusuf Sahib al-Taba'a

Yusuf Sahib al-Taba'a (يوسف صاحب الطابع) was a Moldavian-born mamluk who served as chief minister of Ottoman Tunisia under Hammuda Pasha until his assassination in 1815.

Yusuf Shah Chak

Yusuf Shah Chak (یوسف شاہ چک) was the last independent sultan of Kashmir from the Chak dynasty, ruling from 1579 to 1586, when Akbar detained him and annexed Kashmir.

Yusuf Shah I

Yusuf Shah I (یوسف شاه) was atabeg of Greater Lorestan of the Hazaraspid dynasty, succeeding his father Shams al-Din Alp Arghun in AH 673 and reigning until about 1288.

Yusuf Shihab

Yusuf Shihab (يوسف شهاب) was emir of Mount Lebanon from 1770 under Ottoman suzerainty, known for religious tolerance and Maronite participation before his execution by al-Jazzar.

Yûsuf u Züleyhâ

Yûsuf u Züleyhâ (يوسف و زليخا) is the title shared by mesnevis on the love of the prophet Yusuf and Züleyhâ, written across Persian, Turkish, and Urdu literatures.

Sep 21, 2026

Yusuf Yağcı

Yusuf Yağcı (1952–2023) was a Turkish polymer chemist and professor at Istanbul Technical University, a pioneer of photopolymer science who published nearly 750 articles and won the Humboldt Research Award.